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put right

put right verb: to rectify; to put in order; to make good.

Verb

put right (third-person singular simple present puts right, present participle putting right, simple past and past participle put right)

  1. (transitive) To rectify; to put in order; to make good.
    • “When people realize things are going wrong, there are two questions they can ask: One is, ‘What did we do wrong?’ ... [This] question leads to another line of thinking: ‘How do we put it right?’”2008, Lawrence E. Harrison, “Introduction”, in The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    set straight

Synonyms of put right

Forms of put right

third-person singular presentputs right
present participleputting right
past participleput right
pastput right

Questions about put right

What does put right mean?
Put right means to rectify; to put in order; to make good.
What part of speech is put right?
Put right is a verb.
What is the past tense of put right?
The past tense of put right is put right.

Words near put right in the dictionary

  1. put over
  2. put paid to
  3. put past
  4. put pedal to the metal
  5. put pen to paper
  6. put right
  7. put round
  8. put salt on someone's tail
  9. put some timber on
  10. put someone hip
  11. put someone in a box

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