Recorrect vs. Correct — What's the Difference?

To correct again (possibly undoing a previous 'correction').

To make or put right

To remove the errors or mistakes from

To indicate or mark the errors in

To speak to or communicate with (someone) in order to point out a mistake or error.

To scold or punish so as to improve or reform.

To remedy or counteract (a defect, for example)

To adjust so as to meet a required standard or condition

To make corrections.

To make adjustments; compensate

Free from error or fault; true or accurate.

Conforming to standards; proper

Free from error; true; accurate.

With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

A correct response.

(transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.

To grade (examination papers).

(transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.

(transitive) To discipline; to punish.

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.

To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; - said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

Make right or correct;

Make reparations or amends for;

Censure severely;

Adjust or make up for;

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

Go down in value;

Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;

Treat a defect;

Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;

Socially right or correct;

In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;

Correct in opinion or judgment;