Righting

verb

Word Frequency: 0.5

Definitions

1.verbTo correct.

"Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible."

2.verbTo set upright.

"The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile."

3.verbTo return to normal upright position.

"When the wind died down, the ship righted."

4.verbTo do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

"to right the oppressed"

5.nounThe act of putting something right.

"the rightings of social wrongs"

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