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self-correct

self-correct verb: to correct itself or oneself without outside assistance.

Verb

self-correct (third-person singular simple present self-corrects, present participle self-correcting, simple past and past participle self-corrected)

  1. To correct itself or oneself without outside assistance.

Forms of self-correct

third-person singular presentself-corrects
present participleself-correcting
past participleself-corrected
pastself-corrected

Origin of self-correct

From self- + correct.

Words formed from self-correct

Questions about self-correct

What does self-correct mean?
Self-correct means to correct itself or oneself without outside assistance.
What part of speech is self-correct?
Self-correct is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-correct?
The past tense of self-correct is self-corrected.

Words near self-correct in the dictionary

  1. self-convicted
  2. self-conviction
  3. self-cooker
  4. self-cookers
  5. self-cooling
  6. self-correct
  7. self-corrected
  8. self-correcting
  9. self-correction
  10. self-corrects
  11. self-coup

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