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Examples
- rectify a curve
verb
reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state
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- separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
- refine sugar
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bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
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- The Church reformed me
- reform your conduct
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set straight or right
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- remedy these deficiencies
- rectify the inequities in salaries
- repair an oversight
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make right or correct
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- Correct the mistakes
- rectify the calculation
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convert into direct current
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- rectify alternating current