rectified

American

[rek-tuh-fahyd] / ˈrɛk təˌfaɪd /

adjective

made, put, or set right; corrected or remedied.

E-commerce still suffers from an easily rectified fallacy—the notion that a website constitutes a web business.
made square or straight.

This ceramic tile is a quality rectified tile, mechanically finished on all sides to achieve uniformity.
Electricity. (of an alternating current) changed into a direct current.

If you know what might cause "skipping" in a brushed DC motor supplied by a rectified AC signal, tell me.
Chemistry. (especially of a spirit or liquor) purified by repeated distillation.

Whiskey made of rectified spirits, colored and flavored by burnt sugar, was often branded as bourbon.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of rectify.

Other Word Forms

nonrectified adjective
unrectified adjective

Etymology

Origin of rectified

First recorded in 1550–60; 1865–70 rectified for def. 3; 1570–80 rectified for def. 4; rectify ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; rectify ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

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"This happened eight years ago, it was not meant to cause any offence but it did cause offence, and I rectified that offence. All the people involved were satisfied with that."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Our long national nightmare is over: Paramount+ has gone more than a month without a Taylor Sheridan show, but that situation will be rectified in March with not one, but two, new Sheridan-produced shows.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

This confession, first reported by Politico’s Kyle Cheney, was accompanied by a letter stating that “we regret deeply all violations” but insisting that they were “unintentional and immediately rectified once we learned of them.”

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

The fault has now been rectified and all newly produced panels are safe, a spokesman said Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound tracks, photographs—all had to be rectified at lightning speed.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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