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standing corrected

standing corrected is the present participle and gerund of stand corrected.

Meaning of stand corrected

Verb

stand corrected (third-person singular simple present stands corrected, present participle standing corrected, simple past and past participle stood corrected)

  1. (idiomatic) To acknowledge, after someone else's correction of a statement one made, that this statement was indeed incorrect and that this correction is justified.

Questions about standing corrected

What is standing corrected the present participle and gerund of?
Standing corrected is the present participle and gerund of stand corrected.

Words near standing corrected in the dictionary

  1. standing cloud
  2. standing clouds
  3. standing committee
  4. standing committees
  5. standing confessed
  6. standing corrected
  7. standing crop
  8. standing crops
  9. standing cup
  10. standing cups
  11. standing desk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: standing corrected (page history and authors); stand corrected (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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