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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

put right en · VERB

Meanings

  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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
puts right Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
putting right Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put right Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put right Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

put to rights

Synonyms

set straight