correct
v.v. to fix a mistake or make something right. You do this when you find an error in a piece of writing or a math problem.
v. to rectify an error or inaccuracy; to bring something into alignment with a standard or fact. Transitive in most contexts.
Please correct any mistakes you find in the text.
The teacher spent the entire evening using a red pen to correct the students' essays.
The software is designed to automatically correct minor coding errors, though complex logic flaws still require manual intervention by a senior developer.
Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).
From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.
The verb is transitive and requires a direct object, such as a mistake, an error, or a person's behavior.
I corrected to himI corrected himCorrect is a transitive verb; it takes a direct object without the preposition 'to'.