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adjective

• Free from error; true; accurate.

• With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

verb

• To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.

  Example: The navigator corrected the course of the ship.

• (by extension) To grade (examination papers).

• To inform (someone) of their error.

  Example: It's rude to correct your parents.

• To discipline; to punish.