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corregir — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • amend verb To make formal changes to a document, law, or agreement in order to correct or improve it.
  • correct adj Free from mistakes; accurate or true.
  • proofread verb To carefully check a piece of writing for spelling, grammar, and other errors.
  • revise verb To change or correct something, especially a piece of writing, in order to improve it.
  • right adj Correct, true, or in accordance with fact or good judgment.

Senses

corregir is used for these senses in English:

  • amend (transitive) To make better; improve.
  • correct (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
  • proofread (transitive, and, intransitive) To check a written text for errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation.
  • revise To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
  • 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.

amend — full definition

  1. verb To make formal changes to a document, law, or agreement in order to correct or improve it.
  2. verb To improve or correct something more generally.

correct — full definition

  1. adj Free from mistakes; accurate or true.
  2. verb To fix an error or make something right.

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