correct
/kəˈɹɛkt/ verb B2- To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from. · You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.· The navigator corrected the course of the ship.
- To grade (examination papers). · The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.
- To inform (someone) of their error. · It's rude to correct your parents.
- To discipline; to punish.
Plural correct · He/she/it corrects · Past corrected · Past participle corrected · -ing form correcting
Verb forms
- Base form
- correct
- He/she/it
- corrects
- Past
- corrected
- Past participle
- corrected
- -ing form
- correcting
From the library
“To give you pleasure, my sweet Renée, I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off.”
“Why, if my information prove correct, a sort of Bonapartist conspiracy has just been discovered.”
When I went into this case with you I bargained, as you will no doubt remember, that I should not present you with half-proved theories, but that I should retain and work out my own ideas until I had satisfied myself that they were correct.
If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring.
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