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correctingadjective inflicting, involving, or serving as punishmentquestions the value of such correcting measures as prison sentences for drug addicts castigating, chastening, chastising, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, disciplining, penal, penalizing, punitive retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengefulvengeful, wrathful nonpunitive compensatoryacquitting, exculpating, exculpatory, exonerating, vindicatingabsolving, condoning, pardoning, remittingcommuting, reprieving correctingverbpresent participle of correctto remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations frommore time will be needed to correct the computer program amending, debugging, emending, rectifying, red-penciling, reforming, remedying redrafting, redrawing, restyling, revising, reworking, rewritingblue-penciling, cutting, shorteningredressing, rightingameliorating, bettering, improvingperfecting, polishing, touching upfixing, mending, repairingadjusting, modulating, regulatingaltering, changing, modifying damaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, spoilingaggravating, worsening to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffectivehopefully the young entrepreneur's professionalism will serve to correct his partner's extreme enthusiasm in the eyes of investors annulling, canceling (out)(or cancelling (out)), compensating (for), counteracting, counterbalancing, counterpoising, making up (for), negativing, neutralizing, offsetting invalidating, negating, neutering, nullifyingatoning (for)outbalancing, outweighing, redeemingredressing, relieving, remedyingoverriding, overruling to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crimean insensitive boss who liked to correct subordinates in front of their colleagues castigating, chastening, chastising, disciplining, penalizing, punishing assessing, charging, docking, fining, imposing, levying, mulctingconvicting, sentencingcondemning, damning, denouncingcriticizing, keelhauling, rebuking, reprimanding, reprovingwreaking excusing, pardoning, sparing forfeitinggetting off, ransoming, releasingcommuting, reprievingabsolving, acquitting, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating |