rectifying
rectifying is the present participle and gerund of rectify.
Meaning of rectify
Verb
rectify (third-person singular simple present rectifies, present participle rectifying, simple past and past participle rectified)
- To heal (an organ or part of the body).
- To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
- To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
- to rectify the crisis
- To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
- To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
- 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
Questions about rectifying
- What is rectifying the present participle and gerund of?
- Rectifying is the present participle and gerund of rectify.
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