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RECTIFIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rectified mean?
• RECTIFIED (adjective)
The adjective RECTIFIED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: RECTIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having been put right
Similar:
corrected (having something undesirable neutralized)
Context examples
Again Maud rectified the twist with the watch-tackle, and again she lowered away from the windlass.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Here is some great misapprehension which must be rectified.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Again, carbolic or rectified spirits would be the preservatives which would suggest themselves to the medical mind, certainly not rough salt.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That her manner was wrong, however, at times very wrong, her measures often ill-chosen and ill-timed, and her looks and language very often indefensible, Fanny could not cease to feel; but she began to hope they might be rectified.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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