recorrect

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verb

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

“After the new guy corrected all our inventory values I had to go back and recorrect all of them applying our internal rules.”

OriginEnglish correct ← Middle English re- ← Old French re- →
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Meanings

verbrecorrect (third-person singular simple present recorrects, present participle recorrecting, simple past and past participle recorrected)

present singular third person recorrects · participle present recorrecting · participle past recorrected · past recorrected

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

    After the new guy corrected all our inventory values I had to go back and recorrect all of them applying our internal rules.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishcorrect
  7. Englishrecorrect

From re- + correct.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

correcter
Cite this entry
APA

recorrect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recorrect

MLA

“recorrect.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recorrect. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recorrect,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recorrect.

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