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Remedied vs Rectified - What's the difference?

remedied | rectified |

As verbs the difference between remedied and rectified

is that remedied is (remedy) while rectified is (rectify).

remedied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (remedy)

  • remedy

    English

    (wikipedia remedy)

    Noun

    (remedies)
  • Something that corrects or counteracts.
  • (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

    Derived terms

    * remediless

    Verb

  • To provide or serve as a remedy for.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 27.
  • Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
    Synonyms
    * redress * help * correct * cure * See also

    rectified

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rectify)
  • Anagrams

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    rectify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To correct or amend something.
  • (chemistry) To purify or refine, especially by distillation.
  • (electronics) To convert alternating current into direct current.
  • (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
  • (transitive) To adjust (a globe) in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * rectifiable * rectifiably * rectification * rectifier * rectified spirit

    Anagrams

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