righted
- 1Simple past and past participle of right.
The crew righted the capsized vessel before it could sink.
He righted the toppled bookshelf and gathered the scattered pages.
Note
One spelling serves as both the past tense and the participle, and it carries every verb meaning of right: a mistake righted, a wrong righted at last, a boat righted after capsizing. The upright meaning works two ways. The crew righted the vessel, or the vessel righted on its own. Only the transitive uses form a passive (was righted). The adjective right, naming a side or a direction, has no such form.
The dinghy rolled over and slowly righted in the swell.
The court has finally righted an old injustice.
righted is a form of right
right, verb: To correct something that is wrong or unjust, or to give justice to someone who has been wronged. Full entry
- Spelling
- right → righted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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