Synonyms of the word

correct

• adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
• adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
• v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
• v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

accurate

• adj. In exact or careful conformity to truth; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; which gives truthful…
• adj. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
• adj. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

adjust

• v. (transitive) To modify.
• v. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
• v. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
• v. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

balance

• n. (uncountable) a state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
• n. (uncountable) mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
• n. something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium (literally or figuratively); counterweight.
• n. a pair of scales.
• n. (uncountable) awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
• n. (uncountable) the overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately…
• n. (uncountable) apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
• n. (accounting) a list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
• n. (accounting) the result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
• n. (watchmaking) a device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
• n. (law) the remainder.
• n. (obsolete, astrology) Libra.
• v. (transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To make (concepts) agree.
• v. (transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from…
• v. (transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
• v. (transitive, dancing) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
• v. (nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
• v. (transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
• v. (intransitive) To be in equilibrium.
• v. (intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.

berate

• v. (transitive) to chide or scold vehemently.

castigate

• v. To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.
• v. To revise or make corrections to a publication.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

chasten

• v. To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, attitude, etc.); to restrain, moderate.
• v. To make chaste; to purify.
• v. To punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement; to discipline.
• v. To render humble or restrained.

chastise

• v. To punish or scold someone.

chide

• v. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

compensate

• v. To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
• v. To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy;…
• v. To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

counterbalance

• n. (literally) A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance.
• n. (figuratively) A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one.
• v. (transitive) To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.
• v. (transitive) To apply force in order to balance an opposite one.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To match or equal in effect, but acting in opposition.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

descend

• v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
• v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
• v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
• v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
• v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

discipline

• n. A controlled behaviour; self-control.
• n. An enforced compliance or control.
• n. A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
• n. A state of order based on submission to authority.
• n. A punishment to train or maintain control.
• n. A whip used for self-flagellation.
• n. A set of rules regulating behaviour.
• n. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
• n. A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
• n. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
• v. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
• v. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
• v. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
• v. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

equilibrate

• v. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
• v. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

equilibrize

• v. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
• v. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

exact

• adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor…
• adj. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
• adj. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
• adj. (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism…
• v. (transitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
• v. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.
• adv. exactly.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

lambast

• v. (Britain) Alternative form of lambaste.

lambaste

• v. To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
• v. (dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

lecture

• n. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
• n. A berating or scolding.
• n. (obsolete) The act of reading.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
• v. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

letter-perfect

• adj. Exactly correct, correct in every letter.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

objurgate

• v. (transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.

penalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of penalize.

penalize

• v. (transitive) To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
• v. (transitive, sports) To impose a handicap on.

precise

• adj. Exact, accurate.
• adj. (sciences) Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This…
• v. (used by non-native speakers or in jargons, transitive) To make or render precise.

proper

• adj. (heading) Suitable.
• adj. (heading) Possessed, related.
• adj. (heading) Accurate, strictly applied.
• adv. (Scotland) properly; thoroughly; completely.
• adv. (nonstandard, slang) properly.

punish

• v. To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
• v. To cause great harm to (a punishing blow).

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rebuke

• n. A harsh criticism.
• v. To criticise harshly; to reprove.

rectify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).
• v. (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
• v. (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
• v. (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
• v. (transitive, geodesy, now historical) To adjust (a globe) in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed…
• v. (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
• v. (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky,…

redress

• v. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
• v. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
• v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
• n. The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
• n. A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification;…
• n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
• v. To dress again.
• v. (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
• n. (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

remonstrate

• v. (intransitive) To object; to express disapproval (with, against).
• v. (intransitive, chiefly historical) Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of…
• v. (transitive, often with an object consisting of direct speech or a clause beginning with that) To state…
• v. To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

reprimand

• n. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
• v. To reprove in a formal or official way.

reproof

• n. An act or instance of reproving; a rebuke.
• v. To proof again.

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

right

• adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
• adj. Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two…
• adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
• adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
• adj. Healthy, sane, competent.
• adj. Real; veritable.
• adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
• adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
• adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points…
• adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
• adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
• adv. On the right side.
• adv. Towards the right side.
• interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
• interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
• interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
• interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
• interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
• n. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
• n. A legal or moral entitlement.
• n. The right side or direction.
• n. The right hand.
• n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
• n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
• v. To correct.
• v. To set upright.
• v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
• v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
• adv. Exactly, precisely.
• adv. Immediately, directly.
• adv. (Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
• adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
• adv. In a correct manner.
• adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.

right-minded

• adj. Sane, clear thinking.
• adj. Decent, morally upright; in moral agreement with a position.

scold

• n. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
• v. To rebuke.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

slump

• v. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
• v. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
• v. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
• v. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
• v. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
• n. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance,…
• n. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard…
• n. (Scotland, Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
• n. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
• n. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• n. (slang, by extension) A period when the person lives without sex when sex is expected or desired.

straight

• adj. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
• adj. Figurative uses.
• adj. Colloquial uses.
• adj. (sciences, mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course…
• adv. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
• adv. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
• adv. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
• n. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
• n. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
• n. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
• n. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
• n. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also straighter.
• v. (transitive) To straighten.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

true

• adj. (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
• adj. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
• adj. (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
• adj. Loyal, faithful.
• adj. Genuine.
• adj. Legitimate.
• adj. (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
• adj. (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
• adv. (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
• n. Truth.
• n. The state of being in alignment.
• v. To straighten.
• v. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

word-perfect

• adj. (Britain, theater) Having memorized one's lines perfectly.