Synonyms of the word

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,…

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.

amend

• v. (transitive) To make better.
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
• v. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

ascertain

• v. To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
• v. (archaic) To make (someone) certain or confident.

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.

commute

• v. (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing…
• v. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment…
• n. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
• n. The route, time or distance of that journey.

convert

• n. A person who has converted to a religion.
• n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
• v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
• v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
• v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
• v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• v. (intransitive) To become converted.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

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.

determine

• v. To set the boundaries or limits of.
• v. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
• v. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
• v. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
• v. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence;…
• v. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
• v. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
• v. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

distill

• v. (transitive) To subject a substance to distillation.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo or be produced by distillation.
• v. (transitive) To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
• v. (transitive) To exude in small drops.
• v. (transitive) To impart in small quantities.
• v. (transitive) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
• v. (intransitive) To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
• v. (intransitive) To be manifested gently or gradually.
• v. (intransitive) To drip or be wet with.

exchange

• n. An act of exchanging or trading.
• n. A place for conducting trading.
• n. A telephone exchange.
• n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
• n. A conversation.
• n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
• n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
• n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
• v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
• v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

find

• v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
• v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
• v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
• v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
• v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To point out.
• v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
• v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
• n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
• n. The act of finding.

modify

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

purify

• v. (transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.
• v. (transitive) To free from guilt or sin.

reclaim

• v. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
• v. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
• v. (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
• v. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
• v. (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
• v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
• v. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
• n. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
• n. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
• n. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

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,…

refine

• v. (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
• v. (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
• v. (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance etc.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
• v. (transitive) To make nice or subtle.

reform

• n. The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct…
• v. (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring…
• v. (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.

regenerate

• v. (transitive) To construct or create anew, especially in an improved manner.
• v. (transitive) To revitalize.
• v. (transitive, biology) To replace lost or damaged tissue.
• v. (intransitive) To become reconstructed.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a spiritual rebirth.
• adj. Spiritually reborn.
• adj. (obsolete) Reproduced.

remediate

• v. To correct or improve a deficiency or problem.
• adj. (rare, archaic, education) Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject.

remedy

• n. Something that corrects or counteracts.
• n. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
• n. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
• v. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.

repair

• n. The act of repairing something.
• n. The result of repairing something.
• n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
• v. To transfer oneself to another place.
• v. to pair 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.

sublimate

• v. (transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the…
• v. To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
• v. (transitive, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially…
• v. (archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
• n. (chemistry) A product obtained by sublimation.

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.