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rectified

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[rek-tuh-fahyd] / ˈrɛk təˌfaɪd /

adjective

  1. 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.

  2. made square or straight.

    This ceramic tile is a quality rectified tile, mechanically finished on all sides to achieve uniformity.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  1. 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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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

While that issue has now been rectified, Airbus was forced to deliver fewer aircraft than it had initially aimed for last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Twenty of those belonged to the right people, 35 were touted tickets and the rest did not return to the ticket office to get the situation rectified.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

The concavity in the center of the bed is rectified by sleeping on a folded-up towel, and so forth.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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