correct
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~ alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
correct
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~ censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
correct
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~ adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
correct
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~ go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
correct
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~ make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation"
correct
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~ make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
correct
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~ treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"
correlate
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~ bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information"
correlate
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~ to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation; "Do these facts correlate?"
correspond
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~ be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
correspond
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~ exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years"
correspond
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~ be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics
correspond
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~ take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an `h' in Greek stands for an `s' in Latin"
corroborate
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~ support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence"
corroborate
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~ establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
corrode
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~ become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted"
corrode
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~ cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
corrugate
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~ fold into ridges; "corrugate iron"
corrupt
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~ place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"