Rectifying Synonyms and Antonyms

Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. settling
  2. regenerating
  3. reclaiming
  4. resolving
  5. reconciling
  6. reforming
Make right or correct
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. righting
  2. remedying
  3. reforming
  4. redressing
  5. repairing
  6. correcting
  7. improving
  8. amending
  9. straightening
  10. refining
  11. rebuilding
  12. purifying
  13. mending
  14. fixing
  15. curing
  16. adjusting
Antonyms:
  1. ruining
  2. damaging
  3. worsening
Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. refining

Rectifying Sentence Examples

  • As we have said all along it is about rectifying an anomaly.

  • The heat of controversy is, however, abating, and during the past thirty or forty years both Catholic and Protestant investigators have been vying with one another in adding to our knowledge and in rectifying old mis takes; while an ever-increasing number of writers pledged to neither party are aiding in developing an idea of the scope and nature of the Reformation which differs radically from the traditional one.

  • The owner of the flat above has had several sales fall through due to the cost of rectifying frost damaged brickwork.

  • Yet lawyers increasingly fear that the difficulties of rectifying an injustice are becoming almost insuperable.

  • This Fellowship was subsequently renewed in 2001, where the focus switched to calcineurin regulation of inwardly rectifying potassium channels.

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