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put right - settle or put right; "we need to iron out our disagreements"

iron out, straighten out

ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better - to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

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ameliorate
amend
better
corrective
heal
improve
iron out
irreparable
irretrievable
irreversible

meliorate
rectified
rectify
redress
remedy
repair
straighten
straighten out
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When everything had been put right, and the carriage had been brought back to the road, Levin had the lunch served.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Marilla felt that, in some strange way, his marriage with Anne would put right that old mistake.

Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

- I want to be put right, if I am wrong - isn't it, really?

David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context

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