Definitions:

1. to adjust for verb
   • Engineers work to correct the effects or air resistance.
2. to go down in value verb
   • the stock market corrected
3. to treat a defect verb
   • The new contact lenses will correct for their myopia.

Synonyms:

• adjust
• castigate
• chasten
• chastise
• compensate
• counterbalance
• discipline
• drop
• even off
• even out
• even up
• make up
• objurgate
• redress
• right
• set

NearBy Words:

• correctable
• corrected
• correction
• correctional
• corrections
• correctitude
• corrective
• correctly
• correctness