put right
English
editVerb
editput right (third-person singular simple present puts right, present participle putting right, simple past and past participle put right)
- (transitive) To rectify; to put in order; to make good.
- Synonym: set straight
- 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:
- “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?’”