cor'rectible
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to make free from errors |
| 2. | to indicate the errors in |
| 3. | to rebuke or punish in order to set right or improve: to correct a child; to stand corrected |
| 4. | to counteract or rectify (a malfunction, ailment, etc): these glasses will correct your sight |
| 5. | to adjust or make conform, esp to a standard |
| —adj | |
| 6. | free from error; true; accurate: the correct version |
| 7. | in conformity with accepted standards: correct behaviour |
| [C14: from Latin corrigere to make straight, put in order, from com- (intensive) + regere to rule] | |
| cor'rectable | |
| —adj | |
| cor'rectible | |
| —adj | |
| cor'rectly | |
| —adv | |
| cor'rectness | |
| —n | |
| cor'rector | |
| —n | |
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Cor'rectible
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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