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Correcting
- verb - adjust for;
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;
- censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"
- go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
- make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- make right or correct;
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
- treat a defect;
Correction
- noun - a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- something substituted for an error
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"
- treatment of a specific defect; "the correction of his vision with eye glasses"
Corrective
- adjective - a device for treating injury or disease
- designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
- tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
Correption
- - Chiding; reproof; reproach.
Corrupting
- verb - alter from the original
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
- harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence"
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
- seducing into corrupt practices
- that infects or taints
Corruption
- noun - decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
Corruptive
- adjective - tending to corrupt or pervert
Corticoids
- noun - a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response; "adrenal cortical steroids are used to treat many different conditions"
Costa Rica
- noun - a republic in Central America; one of the most politically stable countries in Latin America