"rectified" in the verb sense
1. rectify
math: determine the length of
"rectify a curve"
2. refine, rectify
reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
"refine sugar"
3. reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
"The Church reformed me"
"reform your conduct"
4. rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend
set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"
"rectify the inequities in salaries"
"repair an oversight"
5. correct, rectify, right
make right or correct
"Correct the mistakes"
"rectify the calculation"
6. rectify
convert into direct current
"rectify alternating current"
"rectified" in the adjective sense
1. rectified
having been put right
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