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| VERB: | 1. To castigate for the purpose of improving: chasten. See PRAISE. 2. To make right what is wrong: amend, emend, mend, rectify, redress, reform, remedy, right. See CORRECT. 3. To subject (one) to a penalty for a wrong: castigate, chastise, discipline, penalize, punish. See REWARD. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Conforming to fact: accurate, exact, faithful, precise, right, rigorous, true, veracious, veridical. See CORRECT, HONEST, REAL, TRUE. 2. Having no errors: accurate, errorless, exact, precise, right, rigorous. See CORRECT, TRUE. 3. Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place: appropriate, apt, becoming, befitting, felicitous, fit1, fitting, happy, meet2, proper, right, tailor-made. See RIGHT. 4. Conforming to accepted standards: becoming, befitting, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, de rigueur, nice, proper, respectable, right, seemly. See COURTESY.
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