stand corrected

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stand corrected (third-person singular simple present stands corrected, present participle standing corrected, simple past and past participle stood corrected)

  1. (idiomatic) To acknowledge, after someone else's correction of a statement one made, that this statement was indeed incorrect and that this correction is justified.

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