right
verb/raɪt/
/raɪt/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they right | /raɪt/ /raɪt/ |
| he / she / it rights | /raɪts/ /raɪts/ |
| past simple righted | /ˈraɪtɪd/ /ˈraɪtɪd/ |
| past participle righted | /ˈraɪtɪd/ /ˈraɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form righting | /ˈraɪtɪŋ/ /ˈraɪtɪŋ/ |
- right somebody/something/yourself to return somebody/something/yourself to the normal position, standing or sitting upright
- They learnt to right a capsized canoe.
- At last the plane righted itself and flew on.
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- right something to correct something that is wrong or not in its normal state
- Righting the economy will demand major cuts in expenditure.
return to position
correct
Word OriginOld English riht (adjective and noun), rihtan (verb), rihte (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to Latin rectus ‘ruled’, from an Indo-European root denoting movement in a straight line.
Idioms
See right in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryright a wrong
- to do something to correct an unfair situation or something bad that you have done
- This is a time to right wrongs and heal divisions.
- How can we right these wrongs?
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