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Answer for the clue "Putting right ", 9 letters:
remedying

Word definitions for remedying in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of remedy English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remedy \Rem"e*dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remedied (-d?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Remedying .] [L. remediare, remediari: cf. F. rem['e]dier. See Remedy , n.] To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract. ...

Usage examples of remedying.

This took place around one o'clock, and only then did Sister John relax and turn her attention to her cellmates, remedying her previous oversight by announcing that she was Sister John of St.

He therefore concluded, that the only means of remedying the evil was to restore the government to the nobility, and diminish the authority of the minor trades by reducing the companies from fourteen to seven, which would give the plebeians less authority in the Councils, both by the reduction in their number and by increasing the authority of the great.

I think that to give them power in order to prevent them from doing mischief, is arming them for it, and increasing instead of remedying the evil.

I’m not soft and I intend to start remedying the softness in Faction Harravay.

To see an ornament set crookedly, or a speck of dust, or a slight disarray in one's attire, was torture to the little man until he could ease his feelings by remedying the matter.