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1. Make right or correct
   "Correct the mistakes"
   - rectify, right
    
2. Make reparations or amends for
   - right, compensate, redress
    
3. Censure severely
   - chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten
    
4. Adjust for
   "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
   - compensate, counterbalance, make up, even out, even off, even up
    
5. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
   - discipline, sort out
    
6. Go down in value
   "the stock market corrected"
   - decline, slump
    
7. Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
   "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
   - adjust, set
    
8. Treat a defect
   "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

1. Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
   "the correct answer"; "the correct version"
   - right
    
2. Socially right or correct
   "correct behaviour"
   - right
    
3. In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
   - right
    
4. Correct in opinion or judgment
   - right

Derived forms: corrected, correcting, corrects

See also: accurate, correction, corrective, correctness, corrigible, exact, letter-perfect, precise, proper, right-minded, rightness, straight, true, word-perfect

Type of: alter, balance, bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet [US], care for, change, change by reversal, chew out, chew up, chide, come down, descend, dress down, equilibrate, equilibrise [Brit], equilibrize, fall, go down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, modify, penalise [Brit], penalize, punish, rag, ream [N. Amer], rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, reverse, scold, take to task, treat, trounce, turn

Antonym: falsify, incorrect

Encyclopedia: Correct