0 past simple and past participle of right
1 If you right a situation or a mistake, you make it better or correct it:
But she very soon righted herself and to the expedition members' great relief they found that the damage was minor.
This volume, however, is not simply a compendium of wrongs partially righted.
That said, might the effect of our folly in this last regard be righted by the keel of evolutionary fortune?
And so the same principle requires two further laws to complete its effect : that wrongdoing is to be righted and that good deeds are to be repaid.
Is there any way in which this anomalous and indefensible situation can be righted, even if it means more work for the monitoring forces?
There is another wide field in which we cannot but feel that great injustice has been done, and that many wrongs have to be righted.
While the tanker was being righted two manhole covers fell off and a larger quantity of petroleum spirit spilled on to the roadway.
It seems to me that we have now righted this wrong and made up for lost time.
