righting

verb

  1. 1

    To correct.

    Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.
  2. 2

    To set upright.

    The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
  3. 3

    To return to normal upright position.

    When the wind died down, the ship righted.
  4. 4

    To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.

    to right the oppressed

noun

  1. 1

    The act of putting something right.

    the rightings of social wrongs

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