Crossword-Solution: RECTIFY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Rectify | v. t. | To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. |
| Rectify | v. t. | To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. |
| Rectify | v. t. | To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| RECTIFY | anagram | CERTIFY |
We have 111 clues for the answer “RECTIFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Make right, as a mistake | 1 answer |
| REFINE by distillation | 1 answer |
| Set it right | 1 answer |
| put right, correct | 1 answer |
| set straight or right | 1 answer |
| TO correct | 2 answers |
| reorganise | 2 answers |
| MAKE all square | 3 answers |
| PAPER over | 3 answers |
| Recast | 6 answers |
| Make right | 9 answers |
| make corrections | 16 answers |
| schematise | 18 answers |
| Make Well | 19 answers |
| Put right | 31 answers |
| resale | 37 answers |
| reorder | 39 answers |
| replevin | 40 answers |
| Refit | 41 answers |
| reassemble | 41 answers |
| Revamp | 41 answers |
| realign | 41 answers |
| recondition | 43 answers |
| regain | 43 answers |
| Retrieve | 44 answers |
| Emend | 44 answers |
| Rearrange | 45 answers |
| Permute | 46 answers |
| Recuperate | 46 answers |
| Résumé | 46 answers |
| MAKE changes | 47 answers |
| popularise | 47 answers |
| resume | 47 answers |
| dissociate | 48 answers |
| Unlock | 48 answers |
| ope | 48 answers |
| uncoil | 48 answers |
| unhitch | 48 answers |
| unknot | 48 answers |
| unpick | 48 answers |
| unstitch | 48 answers |
| unthread | 48 answers |
| convalesce | 48 answers |
| Unclose | 49 answers |
| reflect upon | 49 answers |
| unattach | 49 answers |
| unclasp | 49 answers |
| unscramble | 49 answers |
| remodel | 50 answers |
| dissever | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECTIFY (5)
Beginning with the Vernal Equinox, it must be remembered; and (howsoever the old Solar Year is practically superseded by the clumsy Lunar Year that dates from the Mohammedan Hijra) still commemorated by a Festival that is said to have been appointed by the very Jamshyd whom Omar so often talks of, and whose yearly Calendar he helped to rectify.
Emend, Mend.] To change or modify in any way for the better; as, (a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like; (b) by supplying deficiencies; (c) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
Laura's flight had given him opportunity to escape to his own room unobserved; there to examine, bathe and bind his wounds, and to rectify his first hasty impression that he had been fatally mangled.
All these phrases--FROM ABOVE TO BELOW; TO DESCEND FROM HEAVEN; TO FALL FROM THE CLOUDS, &C.--are henceforth harmless, because we know how to rectify them in practice; but let us deign to consider for a moment how much they have retarded the progress of science.
But as this did not happen to have been the case, he employed every means in his power to rectify what he considered this serious error in his construction.
Quotes with RECTIFY (3)
The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare …
The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.
Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2004–2023).