Correcting Synonyms and Antonyms

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. disciplining
  2. chastening
Adjust for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. punishing
  2. counterbalancing
  3. setting
  4. castigating
  5. chiding
  6. admonishing
  7. penalizing
  8. disciplining
  9. reprimanding
  10. adjusting
  11. chastising
  12. compensating
Antonyms:
  1. goofing
  2. blowing
  3. blundering
  4. mistaking
  5. coddling
  6. spoiling
  7. indulging
  8. pampering
  9. petting
  10. wronging
Go down in value
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slumping
  2. declining
Censure severely
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chastening
  2. castigating
  3. chastising

Words Related to Correcting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Correcting Sentence Examples

  • I would do less correcting and more connecting.

  • John Dollond, to whom the Copley medal of the Royal Society had been the first inventor of the achromatic telescope; but it was ruled by Lord Mansfield that" it was not the person who locked his invention in his scrutoire that ought to profit for such invention, but he who brought it forth for the benefit of mankind."3 In 1747 Leonhard Euler communicated to the Berlin Academy of Sciences a memoir in which he endeavoured to prove the possibility of correcting both the chromatic and.

  • The same term is applied to the acts passed by the state legislatures for correcting and redistributing the representation of the counties.

  • In 1824 Professor Peter Barlow (1776-1862) introduced his correcting plate of soft iron.

  • Carrying on the work from the anatomical point at which he had left it, correcting his errors, and utilizing to the fullest extent the observations of Keyserling and Blasius, to which reference has already been made, Muller, though hampered by mistaken notions of which he seems to have been unable to rid himself, propounded a scheme for the classification of this group, the general truth of which has been admitted by all his successors, based, as the title of his treatise expressed, on the hitherto unknown different types of the vocal organs in the Passerines.

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