Antonyms for rectify
ˈrɛk təˌfaɪrec·ti·fy

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1. rectify

   To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.

   Antonyms:
   aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate

   Synonyms:
   advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, reform, repair

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1. rectify

   Antonyms:
   pervert, corrupt, derange, disorder, distort

   Synonyms:
   straighten, correct, a need, better, adjust, emend, reform, redress, regulate, rearrange, remodel

Matched Categories

1. • Convert
   • Correct
   • Determine
   • Purify

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1. rectifyverb

   math: determine the length of

   "rectify a curve"

   Synonyms:
   repair, reform, correct, regenerate, reclaim, refine, remedy, amend, remediate, right

2. refine, rectifyverb

   reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities

   "refine sugar"

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, refine, reclaim, right, regenerate, polish, down, rarify, fine-tune, correct, reform, amend, remedy, complicate, repair, remediate

3. reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectifyverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   refine, recover, reclaim, right, repair, tame, renew, domesticize, regenerate, restore, correct, domesticise, domesticate, reform, revitalize, amend, straighten out, repossess, remedy, rejuvenate, remediate, see the light

4. rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amendverb

   set straight or right

   "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

   Synonyms:
   right, reform, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, fix, bushel, reanimate, mend, vivify, amend, renovate, improve, correct, quicken, regenerate, reclaim, resort, restore, ameliorate, relieve, touch on, recreate, remedy, refine, repair, animate, better, furbish up, meliorate, revive, doctor, indemnify

5. correct, rectify, rightverb

   make right or correct

   "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"

   Synonyms:
   refine, reclaim, regenerate, chasten, counterbalance, adjust, redress, even out, objurgate, discipline, castigate, correct, decline, right, reform, even up, amend, chastise, compensate, sort out, even off, remedy, repair, make up, remediate, slump, set

6. rectifyverb

   convert into direct current

   "rectify alternating current"

   Synonyms:
   repair, reform, correct, regenerate, reclaim, refine, remedy, amend, remediate, right

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1. rectifyverb

   Synonyms:
   correct, amend

How to use rectify in a sentence?

1. Top Glove:

   We are mindful there is much more to be done to uplift the standard of our employee welfare and promise to rectify shortcomings immediately.

2. Riek Machar:

   I don’t think anybody should have high expectations that this is going to yield a breakthrough. The parties have shown themselves to be utterly indifferent to their country and their people, and that is a hard thing to rectify.

3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   What we’re going to do is make sure communities like Flint, Baltimore, the South Bronx, St. Louis, rural communities whose infrastructure was never properly built in the first place, are first in line to rectify the injustices of the past and make sure they get everything they need to thrive in the future.

4. Ben Carson:

   Before the barrage of attacks on me occurred, I was beating Trump head-to-head, Hillary head-to-head and there are those who didn't like that very much. And the people are the only ones who can rectify the situation.

5. Ghias Moussa:

   We do n’t think that killing more innocent people in Syria by bombing them will rectify what has happened, whether it was done by the Assad regime or not, americans should not change regimes around the world to get somebody we like and fight people we do n’t like.

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