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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)

  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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Questions about rectifying

What is rectifying the present participle and gerund of?
Rectifying is the present participle and gerund of rectify.

Words near rectifying in the dictionary

  1. rectifies
  2. rectiflexible
  3. rectiformer
  4. rectiformers
  5. rectify
  6. rectifying
  7. rectigradation
  8. rectigradations
  9. rectigrade
  10. Rectigraph
  11. Rectigraphs

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