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call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, bawl out, berate, rebuke, reproof, scold, take to task, call down, lambast, lambaste, lecture, reprimand, remonstrate, trounce, jaw, rag - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus ( “ improved, amended, correct ” ), past participle of corrigere, conrigere ( “ to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct ” ), from com- ( “ together ” ) + combining form of regō, regere ( “ I rule, make straight ” ). adj ( answer) → corretto/a, esatto/a, giusto/a; ( temperature, time, amount, forecast) → esatto/a, giusto/a; ( behaviour) → corretto/a; ( dress) → adatto/a; ( procedure) → giusto/a, corretto/a accurate, right, true, exact, precise, flawless, faultless, on the right lines, O.K. or okay (informal) The information was correct at the time of going to press.
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Redress refers to setting right something considered immoral or unethical and usually involves some kind of recompense: "They said he had done very little to redress the abuses that the army had committed against the civilian population" (Daniel Wilkinson). correct ( third-person singular simple present corrects, present participle correcting, simple past and past participle corrected) Rectify stresses the idea of bringing something into conformity with a standard of what is right: "It is dishonest to claim that we can rectify racial injustice without immediate cost" (Mari J. Matsuda). English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese
Let's get this straight - you're travelling to Frankfurt on Monday and Brussels on Tuesday, is that correct? rectify, remedy, redress, right, improve, reform, cure, adjust, regulate, amend, set the record straight, emend He may need surgery to correct the problem.
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Russian: исправля́ть (ru) impf ( ispravljátʹ ), испра́вить (ru) pf ( isprávitʹ ), корректи́ровать (ru) ( korrektírovatʹ ) balance, equilibrise, equilibrize, equilibrate - bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights" proper - marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"Remedy involves removing or counteracting something considered a cause of harm, damage, or discontent: He took courses to remedy his abysmal ignorance.