Words that rhyme with scarify

  • acetify
    v 1: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten] 2: turn acidic; "the solution acetified" [syn: acidify, acetify] [ant: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize, basify]
  • acidify
    v 1: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten] 2: turn acidic; "the solution acetified" [syn: acidify, acetify] [ant: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize, basify]
  • airily
    adv 1: in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters' questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained to your children" [syn: flippantly, airily]
  • alkalify
    v 1: turn basic and less acidic; "the solution alkalized" [syn: alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify] [ant: acetify, acidify]
  • amorally
    adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally, amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously]
  • amplify
    v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: magnify, amplify] 2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate] 3: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify] 4: increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
  • arbitrarily
    adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy- nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way]
  • argufy
    v 1: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
  • aurally
    adv 1: with regard to sound or the ear; "the new musical was visually and aurally appealing"
  • beatify
    v 1: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify] 2: make blessedly happy 3: declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"
  • beautify
    v 1: make more beautiful [syn: fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify] [ant: uglify] 2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify] 3: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify]
  • bilaterally
    adv 1: with the involvement of two parties or governments; "they worked out an agreement bilaterally" 2: so as to involve two sides or parts
  • calcify
    v 1: become impregnated with calcium salts [ant: decalcify] 2: become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify" 3: turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over the centuries" 4: convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock"
  • certify
    v 1: provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" [syn: attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence] 2: guarantee payment on; of checks 3: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant: decertify, derecognise, derecognize] 4: guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" [syn: certify, endorse, indorse] 5: declare legally insane
  • charily
    adv 1: with great caution; warily
  • cheerily
    adv 1: in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly" [syn: pleasantly, cheerily, sunnily]
  • chorally
    adv 1: by a chorus; "chorally accompanied"
  • clarify
    v 1: make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" [syn: clarify, clear up, elucidate] [ant: obfuscate] 2: make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer"
  • classify
    v 1: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate] 2: declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents" [ant: declassify] 3: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn: relegate, classify]
  • codify
    v 1: organize into a code or system, such as a body of law; "Hammurabi codified the laws"
  • contradictorily
    adv 1: in a contradictory manner; "he argued contradictorily"
  • contrarily
    adv 1: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise] 2: contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary]
  • crucify
    v 1: kill by nailing onto a cross; "Jesus Christ was crucified" 2: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate] 3: hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" [syn: mortify, subdue, crucify] 4: criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify]
  • dandify
    v 1: dress like a dandy
  • decalcify
    v 1: lose calcium or calcium compounds 2: remove calcium or lime from; "decalcify the rock" [ant: calcify]
  • decertify
    v 1: cause to be no longer approved or accepted; "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China" [syn: decertify, derecognize, derecognise] [ant: certify, licence, license]
  • declassify
    v 1: lift the restriction on and make available again; "reclassify the documents" [ant: classify]
  • dehumidify
    v 1: make less humid; "The air conditioner dehumidifies the air in the summer" [ant: humidify, moisturise, moisturize]
  • deify
    v 1: consider as a god or godlike; "These young men deify financial success" 2: exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King"
  • demystify
    v 1: make less mysterious or remove the mystery from; "let's demystify the event by explaining what it is all about" [ant: mystify]
  • denitrify
    v 1: remove nitrogen from; "Denitrify the soil" [ant: nitrify]
  • detoxify
    v 1: remove poison from; "detoxify the soil" [syn: detoxify, detoxicate] 2: treat for alcohol or drug dependence; "He was detoxified in the clinic" [syn: detox, detoxify]
  • dignify
    v 1: confer dignity or honor upon; "He was dignified with a title" [syn: ennoble, dignify] 2: raise the status of; "I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer"
  • disqualify
    v 1: make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you" [syn: disqualify, unfit, indispose] [ant: dispose, qualify] 2: declare unfit; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete" [ant: qualify]
  • diversify
    v 1: make (more) diverse; "diversify a course of study" 2: spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified" [syn: diversify, radiate] 3: vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" [syn: diversify, branch out, broaden] [ant: narrow, narrow down, specialise, specialize]
  • drearily
    adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future" [syn: dismally, drearily]
  • dulcify
    v 1: make sweeter in taste [syn: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate] [ant: acetify, acidify, acidulate, sour]
  • edify
    v 1: make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal" [syn: enlighten, edify]
  • electrify
    v 1: excite suddenly and intensely; "The news electrified us" 2: charge (a conductor) with electricity 3: equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance" [syn: electrify, wire]
  • elementarily
    adv 1: in an elementary manner
  • emulsify
    v 1: cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion [ant: demulsify] 2: form into or become an emulsion; "The solution emulsified" [ant: demulsify]
  • exemplify
    v 1: be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue" [syn: exemplify, represent] 2: clarify by giving an example of [syn: exemplify, illustrate, instance]
  • falsify
    v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify, distort, garble, warp] 2: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 3: prove false; "Falsify a claim" 4: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" [ant: correct, rectify, right] 5: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter, falsify]
  • federally
    adv 1: by federal government; "it's federally regulated"
  • fierily
    adv 1: with passionate fervor; "both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book" [syn: fierily, fervently, fervidly]
  • fortify
    v 1: make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries" [syn: strengthen, beef up, fortify] [ant: weaken] 2: enclose by or as if by a fortification [syn: fortify, fort] 3: prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border" [syn: arm, build up, fortify, gird] [ant: demilitarise, demilitarize, disarm] 4: add nutrients to; "fortified milk" 5: add alcohol to (beverages); "the punch is spiked!" [syn: spike, lace, fortify]
  • fructify
    v 1: become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified" 2: make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified" 3: bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify" [syn: fructify, set]
  • glorify
    v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim] 2: bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic" 3: elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration [syn: transfigure, glorify, spiritualize] 4: cause to seem more splendid; "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building"
  • gratify
    v 1: make happy or satisfied [syn: satisfy, gratify] [ant: dissatisfy] 2: yield (to); give satisfaction to [syn: gratify, pander, indulge]
  • horrify
    v 1: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify]
  • humidify
    v 1: make (more) humid; "We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house" [syn: humidify, moisturize, moisturise] [ant: dehumidify]
  • identify
    v 1: recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster" [syn: identify, place] 2: give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months" [syn: name, identify] 3: consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else; "He identified with the refugees" 4: conceive of as united or associated; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus" 5: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn: identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name] 6: consider to be equal or the same; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives"
  • illiberally
    adv 1: in a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally]
  • immorally
    adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally, amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously]
  • intensify
    v 1: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing" [syn: escalate, intensify, step up] [ant: de-escalate, step down, weaken] 2: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, compound, heighten, deepen] 3: become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: intensify, deepen] 4: make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
  • jollify
    v 1: celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail]
  • justify
    v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means" [syn: justify, warrant] 2: show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim" [syn: justify, vindicate] 3: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" [syn: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise] 4: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" [syn: absolve, justify, free] [ant: blame, fault] 5: adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"
  • laterally
    adv 1: to or by or from the side; "such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin" 2: in a lateral direction or location; "the body is spindle- shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"
  • liberally
    adv 1: freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his stories liberally" 2: in a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities" [syn: liberally, munificently, generously]
  • liquefy
    v 1: become liquid; "The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew" 2: make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver" [syn: liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise] 3: become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied" [syn: liquefy, flux, liquify]
  • literally
    adv 1: in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally" [ant: figuratively] 2: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"
  • magnify
    v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: magnify, amplify] 2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate] 3: make large; "blow up an image" [syn: blow up, enlarge, magnify] [ant: reduce, scale down]
  • merrily
    adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]
  • militarily
    adv 1: with respect to the military; "on a militarily significant scale"
  • minify
    v 1: make smaller; "He decreased his staff" [syn: decrease, lessen, minify] [ant: increase]
  • misidentify
    v 1: identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister" [syn: mistake, misidentify]
  • modify
    v 1: make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" 2: add a modifier to a constituent [syn: modify, qualify] 3: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" [syn: change, alter, modify]
  • mollify
    v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle] 2: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism" [syn: temper, season, mollify] 3: make less rigid or softer
  • momentarily
    adv 1: for an instant or moment; "we paused momentarily before proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch" [syn: momentarily, momently] 2: at any moment; "she will be with you momently" [syn: momentarily, momently]
  • monaurally
    adv 1: in a monaural manner; "the stimuli were presented monaurally" [syn: monaurally, to one ear, in one ear] [ant: binaurally, in both ears, to both ears]
  • morally
    adv 1: with respect to moral principles; "morally unjustified" 2: in a moral manner; "he acted morally under the circumstances" [syn: morally, virtuously] [ant: amorally, immorally]
  • mortify
    v 1: practice self-denial of one's body and appetites 2: hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" [syn: mortify, subdue, crucify] 3: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase] 4: undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" [syn: necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate]
  • multilaterally
    adv 1: in a multilateral manner;so as to affect many parties or governments; "they worked out an agreement unilaterally" [ant: one-sidedly, unilaterally]
  • mummify
    v 1: preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of" 2: remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaohs" 3: dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found" [syn: mummify, dry up]
  • mystify
    v 1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 2: make mysterious; "mystify the story" [ant: demystify]
  • necessarily
    adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: necessarily, needfully] [ant: unnecessarily] 2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs] 3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"
  • nitrify
    v 1: convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria 2: treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound [syn: nitrify, nitrogenize, nitrogenise] 3: treat (soil) with nitrates [ant: denitrify]
  • notify
    v 1: inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent was due" [syn: advise, notify, give notice, send word, apprise, apprize]
  • nullify
    v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate] 2: show to be invalid [syn: invalidate, nullify] [ant: validate] 3: make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate]
  • objectify
    v 1: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts" [syn: exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify] 2: make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women" [syn: depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify] [ant: individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize]
  • obligatorily
    adv 1: in an obligatory manner; "this rule applies obligatorily" [ant: optionally] 2: in a manner that cannot be evaded; "the ministry considers that contributions to such a fund should be met from voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily levied." [syn: compulsorily, obligatorily, mandatorily]
  • orally
    adv 1: (of drugs) through the mouth rather than through injection; by_mouth; "he was administered the drug orally" 2: by spoken rather than written means; "these stories were transmitted by word of mouth" [syn: orally, by word of mouth]
  • ossify
    v 1: become bony; "The tissue ossified" 2: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, ossify, petrify] 3: cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
  • oversimplify
    v 1: simplify to an excessive degree; "Don't oversimplify the problem" 2: make too simple; "Don't oversimplify the instructions"
  • pacify
    v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle] 2: fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); "The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia"
  • peremptorily
    adv 1: in an imperative and commanding manner [syn: imperatively, peremptorily]
  • perfunctorily
    adv 1: in a set manner without serious attention; "they answered my letter pro forma"; "he kissed her cheek perfunctorily" [syn: perfunctorily, as a formality, pro forma]
  • personify
    v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body, personify] 2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 3: attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: personify, personate]
  • petrify
    v 1: cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking" 2: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn: lapidify, petrify] 3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, ossify, petrify]
  • prettify
    v 1: make more beautiful [syn: fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify] [ant: uglify]
  • primarily
    adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main] 2: of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter" [syn: primarily, in the first place] [ant: secondarily]
  • purify
    v 1: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" [syn: purify, sublimate, make pure, distill] 2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: purify, purge, sanctify] 3: become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"
  • putrefy
    v 1: become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies"
  • qualify
    v 1: prove capable or fit; meet requirements [syn: qualify, measure up] 2: pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections" [ant: disqualify] 3: make more specific; "qualify these remarks" [syn: qualify, restrict] 4: make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: qualify, dispose] [ant: disqualify, indispose, unfit] 5: specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify] 6: describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover" [syn: qualify, characterize, characterise] 7: add a modifier to a constituent [syn: modify, qualify]
  • quantify
    v 1: use as a quantifier 2: express as a number or measure or quantity; "Can you quantify your results?" [syn: quantify, measure]
  • ramify
    v 1: have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify" [syn: complexify, ramify] 2: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: ramify, branch] 3: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate]
  • rarefy
    v 1: lessen the density or solidity of; "The bones are rarefied" 2: make more subtle or refined [syn: rarefy, sublimate, subtilize] 3: weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) [syn: rarefy, attenuate]
  • ratify
    v 1: approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?" [syn: sign, ratify]
  • reclassify
    v 1: classify anew, change the previous classification; "The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species"
  • rectify
    v 1: math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve" 2: reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" [syn: refine, rectify] 3: bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify] 4: set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [syn: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend] 5: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" [syn: correct, rectify, right] [ant: falsify] 6: convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"

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