rectify
verb (used with object)
to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct.
had rectified
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past perfectof rectify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But the bike maker had rectified those issues with new models it was unable to bring to market before declaring bankruptcy.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023
He said awarding full marks had rectified the error "somewhat", but believes it will not fully account for the students who spent extra time trying to answer the unexpected question.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2022
Rutherford's spokesperson, Alex Lanfranconi, also told Insider that the Congressman had rectified the situation and would not be facing a fine for the situation.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2021
But first, I could wish that this worthy Person had rectified my mistakes, not by speculation, but by experiments.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
Apollonius had not yet had dinner, but when there was a flaw of any kind in his work he could not rest until he had rectified it.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
