rectify

rectify
I verb adjust, alter, ameliorate, amend, better, correct, corrigere, cure, emend, emendare, emendate, improve, make corrections, make right, meliorate, mend, perfect, put to rights, redress, reform, rehabilitate, remedy, renovate, repair, restore, revise, right, set right, set to rights, straighten, untangle II index adjust (resolve), ameliorate, amend, attune, cure, disabuse, edit, emend, fix (repair), meliorate, modify (alter), purge (purify), redress, reform, regulate (adjust), rehabilitate, remedy, renew (refurbish), repair, restore (renew), revise, settle

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


rectify
v.
To correct; to make something right.
n.
rectification

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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