put right

present singular third person puts right · participle present putting right

1. transitiveTo 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

   Synonyms: set straight