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to rights

to rights prepositional phrase: into proper order; properly.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Into proper order; properly.
    • My shoulder was dislocated. It was agony to have it put to rights.
    • I felt ill, but some fresh air and iced water set me to rights.
  2. (informal, obsolete) At once; immediately.
    • Then they knocked off some of the boards for the use of the ship, and when they had got all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the sea, which, by reason of the many breaches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to rights.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput)

Words formed from to rights

Questions about to rights

What does to rights mean?
To rights means into proper order; properly.
What part of speech is to rights?
To rights is a prepositional phrase.

Words near to rights in the dictionary

  1. to overflowing
  2. to perfection
  3. to pieces
  4. to put it another way
  5. to reckon with
  6. to rights
  7. to save one's life
  8. to say nothing of
  9. to say the least
  10. to scale
  11. to some extent

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