to right
- verb
- /raɪt/
- Naydra swallowed her heart and quickly righted first the chair and then Princess Palila.
- right wrongs
- right an imbalance
- right an injustice
Examples
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So I'm just going to put this right back here now.
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I saw a wrong and tried to right it.
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The plane is actually designed to right itself in...
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Why should I right this wrong?
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How have you sort of worked to right that ship and to help rebuild trust?
Academic text (2016) -
Remarkably, Cross has managed to right his campaign, and now, as you see, the District Attorney has just won the election for Attorney General.
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Now her role is not only to save him, but also to right the wrongs of many other characters.
Academic text (1998) -
What can we do to right the imbalance in the curriculum that these mandates may cause?
Academic text (1998) -
As you make sacrifices, you are, yourself, making payments for the sins you've done, righting your own wrongs.
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After the storm, we worked together to right the fallen trees that blocked the road.
Synonyms
To make something right by fixing a mistake
Return something to the place where it was before
To change something so it is in the right position or works correctly
Return something like a painting or building to its original working condition
Make something straight and in the right position
To fix something that is wrong and make things right
To move things or ideas into the right position
To fix a mistake or problem and return things to normal
To put something back where it was
To make something stand up again after it falls
Put something back up after it falls or is taken down
Idioms
- Informal
A punishment that someone deserves because of their own wrong actions
- Jargon
A place to the right of the stage where actors wait out of view of the audience
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Formal
A right that a country's most important law gives and protects, for example free speech
People who support conservative political, social, and economic ideas and little change
- Formal
Freedom from other people entering your personal life without permission
- Formal
A right for someone accused of a crime to have a lawyer, including a free one if they cannot pay
- Literature
A political group in the United States that wants laws to follow conservative religious beliefs
A player who plays on the right side of the outfield and catches balls hit there
- Specialized
Part of the brain that controls the left side of the body and helps with creativity and understanding space
An understanding of what is right and wrong that guides a person's actions
- Formal
A right under the law to be left alone and not have personal matters made public
A very large whale with baleen that lives in cold coastal waters and is endangered
- Specialized
An object's eastward angle along the sky's equator used to find its position, shown in hours
- Specialized
The half of the brain on the right that controls the left side and helps with visual and creative thinking
- Specialized
The top right part of the heart that receives blood without oxygen from the body
- Specialized
The lower part of the heart on the right that pumps blood to the lungs
- Specialized
A legal right that lets an inventor stop others from making, using, or selling an invention for a set time
A baseball player who throws the ball to the batter with their right hand
- Formal
A legal and moral claim to be free from unfair arrest and official control
A political idea that kings get their power from God and are not controlled by their people
- Specialized
A blood vessel that carries blood to the right side of the heart
- Formal
A married person's legal claim to live with and be close to their partner
A person with very strict traditional political views who strongly opposes social change
Permission for a prisoner to have private visits with their spouse for sex
- Literature
A country or organization that strongly supports democracy and freedom worldwide
- Specialized
A valve with three flaps between the right upper and lower chambers of the heart that stops blood flowing backward
- Formal
A choice a surviving spouse makes to take either what the will gives or the legal share of the estate
- Formal
The only right to be the first to make a work public and sell it
How Restored
Surface Forms
Etymology
Right as a verb comes from the idea of making something 'correct' or 'straight' (from old English riht), so to right something is to put it back into the proper position.