Corrected
[kə'rektɪd]
Definition
(adj.) having something undesirable neutralized; 'with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20' .
Checker: Lorrie--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Correct
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Examples
- Do you suppose if there was any offence given me, I shouldn't name it, and request to have it corrected? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Having corrected the irregularity, she seated herself on one of the glossy purple arm-chairs; Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Agnes said she was afraid I must have given her an unpromising character; but Dora corrected that directly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For as the very idea of equality is that of such a particular appearance corrected by juxtaposition or a common measure. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Electric current, corrected Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But she wouldn't have them corrected--no-o, wouldn't hear of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Jane, you don't understand these things: children must be corrected for their faults. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Moore encouraged while he corrected her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I stand corrected; do you suppose--you go so far as to suppose, sometimes? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Strange that this impression so abides by Twemlow after being corrected, yet so it is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then I compared my Spectator with an original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And how is the error to be corrected? Plato. The Republic.
- Ancient and modern history corrected. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I doubt whether my own sense would have corrected me without it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The Lily we know, he corrected; and his cousin, beaming at the implied understanding, exclaimed joyfully: I'll tell her that! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Thus I corrected that great _erratum_ as well as I could. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The old gentleman corrected the mistake, however, and handed the paper back to Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It can then, with the utmost convenience, be read over, corrected amply, rearranged freely, retyped, and recorrected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I claim the right to correct misstatements, and have so corrected the color of the water in the above recapitulation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It's not unnatural-- OUR family, she corrected herself; and Archer coloured. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Here are indicated the defects in depositing the seed that only the inventions of the century have fully corrected. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mrs. Trenor sharply corrected the tense. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This inconvenience is corrected in the same manner as that above-mentioned. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- So that I was prepared for the consequences, he corrected good-humouredly. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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