Usually means: Makes right, corrects, or improves.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. rectifies: Merriam-Webster
  2. rectifies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rectifies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rectifies: Vocabulary.com
  5. rectifies: Wordnik
  6. rectifies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rectifies: Wiktionary
  8. rectifies: Dictionary.com
  9. rectifies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. rectifies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rectifies: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rectifies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rectifies: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rectify)

verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).
verb:  (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
verb:  (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
verb:  (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
verb:  (transitive, geodesy, historical) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
verb:  (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
verb:  (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
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