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self-right

self-right verb: to make oneself upright.

Verb

self-right (third-person singular simple present self-rights, present participle self-righting, simple past and past participle self-righted)

  1. To make oneself upright.

Forms of self-right

third-person singular presentself-rights
present participleself-righting
past participleself-righted
pastself-righted

Origin of self-right

Back-formation from self-righting, equivalent to self- + right.

Words formed from self-right

Questions about self-right

What does self-right mean?
Self-right means to make oneself upright.
What part of speech is self-right?
Self-right is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-right?
The past tense of self-right is self-righted.

Words near self-right in the dictionary

  1. self-restraint
  2. self-revelation
  3. self-revelations
  4. self-review
  5. self-reviews
  6. self-right
  7. self-righted
  8. self-righteous
  9. self-righteously
  10. self-righteousness
  11. self-righter

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