PUT RIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put right mean? 

• PUT RIGHT (verb)
  The verb PUT RIGHT has 1 sense:

1. settle or put right

  Familiarity information: PUT RIGHT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT RIGHT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Settle or put right

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

iron out; put right; straighten out

Context example:

we need to iron out our disagreements

Hypernyms (to "put right" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

“Oh! I am glad to know that, because I always like to be put right when I am wrong,” said Rosa Dartle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“But isn't it, though? I want to be put right, if I am wrong—isn't it, really?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His papers were in a little confusion, in consequence of Mr. Jack Maldon having lately proffered his occasional services as an amanuensis, and not being accustomed to that occupation; but we should soon put right what was amiss, and go on swimmingly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His repudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess of its surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs. Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated at about the level of low-water mark, soothed in her slumbers by the ticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred me when we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, and which was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, and had always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)