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rectify: convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"; set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"; math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve"

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straighten collapse: make straight or straighter; "Straighten this post"; "straighten hair"; make straight; get up from a sitting or slouching position; "The students straightened when the teacher entered"; straighten up or out; make straight

edulcorate collapse

blue pencil collapse

spiritualize collapse: purify from the corrupting influences of the world; "During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized"; give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

similarize collapse

disabuse collapse: free somebody (from an erroneous belief)

put right collapse

unbend collapse: release from mental strain, tension, or formality; "unbend the mind from absorbing too much information"; free from flexure; "unbend a bow"; unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay

expiate collapse: make amends for; "expiate one's sins"

indemnify collapse: secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for; "This plan indemnifies workers against wages lost through illness"

remunerate collapse

put to rights collapse

rewrite collapse: something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better"; write differently; alter the writing of; "The student rewrote his thesis"; rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose; "re-write a play for use in schools"

retaliate collapse: make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing"

make amends collapse

repay collapse

pay back collapse: take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"

put straight collapse

gear to collapse

sit up collapse: change to an upright sitting position; "He sat up in bed"

attune collapse: adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with

unsnarl collapse

sync collapse

revamp collapse: to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it"

emend collapse: make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"

atone collapse

countervail collapse

sublimate collapse: the product of vaporization of a solid; direct energy or urges into useful activities

requite collapse: make repayment for or return something

distill collapse: give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"; undergo the process of distillation; extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"

synchronize collapse: make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; "Let's synchronize our efforts"; cause to indicate the same time or rate; "synchronize your watches"; operate simultaneously; "The clocks synchronize"; arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events"; make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action; "synchronize this film"; happen at the same time

straighten out collapse

amenable collapse: disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"; liable to answer to a higher authority; " the president is amenable to the constitutional court"; open to being acted upon in a certain way; "an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death"; "the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment"

filter collapse: device that removes something from whatever passes through it; an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it; remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"

clarify collapse: make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer"; make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"

edit collapse: prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"; cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"; cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"; supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"

agree with collapse

equalize collapse: compensate; make the score equal

set straight collapse

tailor collapse: a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

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