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put right

v. settle or put right; "we need to iron out our disagreements" [syn: iron out, straighten out]

Usage examples of "put right".

Much extra work needed to put right the errors perpetrated by the former Eistaa, the justifiably dead Deeste, and with all this Vaintè.

In part, it was shame at the lack of understanding he had shown his mother over the years, which he knew he had to put right.

It's enough to be robbed while you're snoring because you're too comfortable, without being put right with your four seven ones.

I fear my sisters and I have a good deal to put right already for those who have helped me.

Most other guilds do not, which is something the Association intends to put right.

And while everyone looked at the Queens card, I snuck a peek at the card I would put right in front of hers.

The enemy had broken her and the crimes she had subsequently committed could never be put right.

Agroda made one step forward, put right hand to left shoulder, and made the slight nod that was the formal salutation of Vredai to Khene.

The whole fabric of her life was a lie, a stained and tattered ruin that nothing would ever put right, again.

Look, Phin, they made mistakes sometimes, of course, but if they've handed you the little end, we'll go right down there and get it put right.

Sweaty face or cool, Egwene was the Amyrlin Seat, before whom kings bowed and queens curtsied, even if none had yet, who would have Elaida tried and executed in short order and all put right with the White Tower, and thus with the world.

Mishnoff longed for the day he could get up the courage necessary to see the Head of the Section and put right out in plain view-bang, like that-exactly what it was that was troubling him.

I thought it could never get put right, but in the end the agency he found brought us a nineteenyearold woman who'd lost her own baby and she seemed to take to the children at once.

I thought it could never get put right, but in the end the agency he found brought us a nineteen-year-old woman who'd lost her own baby and she seemed to take to the children at once.