korrigieren — meaning in English
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English meaning
- castigate verb To scold or punish someone harshly.
- correct adj Free from mistakes; accurate or true.
- mark noun A visible line, spot, or impression left on a surface.
- rectify verb To correct a mistake or fix a problem.
- right adj Correct, true, or in accordance with fact or good judgment.
- tweak verb To make a small adjustment to something in order to improve it.
Senses
korrigieren is used for these senses in English:
- castigate (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.
- correct (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
- mark (Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- rectify (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right. [from 16th c.]
- right (transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
- set straight (transitive, idiomatic) To correct; to make right or true.
- straighten out (transitive, idiomatic) To correct or rectify.
- tweak (transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
castigate — full definition
- verb To scold or punish someone harshly.
- verb To condemn something strongly, especially by criticising it in public.
- verb To revise or make corrections to a publication.
correct — full definition
- adj Free from mistakes; accurate or true.
- verb To fix an error or make something right.
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