Correct
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- (to make correct, to set right by altering or adjusting to make the errors of, to scold or punish, to cure or counteract) correct an exam paper កែ, ត្រួតពិនិត្យ, correct a child ប្រដៅ, correct a false statement កែតម្រូវ
Example: The teacher corrected our papers before handing them back to us.
adjective
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- (proper, true., accurate, right) correct answer ដែលត្រូវ, correct behavior ដែលសមរម្យ, ដែលត្រឹមត្រូវ, correct speech ដែលត្រឹមត្រូវ
Example: The only version that is correct is the one prepared by our own students. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ត្រឹមត្រូវ
verb — past tense: corrected ; past participle: corrected ; present participle: correcting ;
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- កែតម្រូវ
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- (វេជ្ជសាស្ត្រ) កែ, កែតម្រូវ
ENGLISH MEANING
adjective
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- Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
verb — past tense: corrected ; past participle: corrected ; present participle: correcting ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
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- (TRANSITIVE) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
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- aid, amend, help, improve, mend, rectify, reform, remedy, right
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- admonish, discipline, punish, reprimand
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- accurate, exact, faultless, impeccable, precise, proper, right, strict
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- aggravate, ignore, ruin, spoil
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- condone, indulge
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- erroneous, faulty, untrue, wrong