Definition of "spell-check" []

• To verify the spelling used in a document for correctness, especially by using a program. (verb)

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• "Yes, perhaps you should have spent those FOUR minutes doing a little spell-check?"
• "My apologies for the spelling errors, my internal spell-check functions poorly late at night."
• "The significant change that computers have wrought upon the culture of spelling has come not via the spell-check function of word processing programs but through the insidious automatization of that function: your computer can now correct you as you type."