rectifies

Verb

rectify (third-person singular simple present rectifies, present participle rectifying, simple past and past participle rectified)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).
2. (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
3. (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
   • to rectify the crisis
4. (transitive) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
5. (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
6. (archaic, transitive) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
   • For thus their Sense informeth them, and herein their Reason cannot Rectifie them; and therefore hopelessly continuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurdities […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3

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