Corrects Synonyms and Antonyms

To castigate for the purpose of improving
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chastens
Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. castigates
  2. disciplines
  3. punishes
  4. penalizes
  5. chastises
Go down in value
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slumps
  2. declines
Censure severely
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chastens
  2. castigates
  3. chastises

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Corrects Sentence Examples

  • From the above account it will be understood that not one of the four chief soil constituents is in itself of value for the growth of crops, yet when they are mixed, as they usually are in the soils met with in nature, one corrects the deficiencies of the other.

  • If in a well-known passage (Logic § 212) he seems to countenance the Spinoxistic view he immediately corrects it by assigning an " actualizing force " to this illusion and making it a " necessary dynamic element of truth."

  • In it he corrects his aunt, who had put up the wooden pillars of his Waterloo bridge "upside down."

  • He corrects Aristotle by himself.

  • Philosophy corrects in this way the abstractions which are inevitably made by the scientific specialist, and may claim, therefore, to be the only "concrete" science, that is to say, the only science which takes account of all the elements in the problem, and the only science whose results can claim to be true in more than a provisional sense.

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