Correct
Correct verb - To remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from.
Rid
Rid verb - To set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers.
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- Exploited in an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, when Jimmy came up with an idea to get rid of his robotic servants on a mission to "correct error" who had reasoned humans are inherently extreme errors that must be deleted.
Source: Ludicrous Precision -
Strangling one of your only scientists for not being able to correct a problem on the spot, getting rid of a third of your remaining men just because the guy they were loyal to wasn't Ax-Crazy, utterly refusing to surrender in the face of horrible death?
Source: Series / Stargate Universe -
He's quick to get rid of (or in the rare cases where they matter to him for some reason, correct) people who don't stick to his vision of the script, all while refusing to ever acknowledge the possibility that he may not have the right view of the script to begin with.
Source: Lawful Evil
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