Meaning

1 senses

  1. To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Bela and I need to set things aright.

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  2. "Come, jolly Bacchus, giver of delight; / kind Juno, come; and ye with fair accord / and friendly spirit hold the feast aright."

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Origin

From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iriȝten, irihten

From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iriȝten, irihten, ȝerihten (“to make right, correct, erect”), from Old English ġerihtan (“to set right”), equivalent to a- + right.

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Forms

arights, arighting, arighted, arighted
Base formaright · to aright
3rd person singulararights
Present participlearighting
Past simplearighted
Past participlearighted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyaright
he, she, itarights

Past simpleLesson

all personsarighted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave arighted
he, she, ithas arighted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill aright

Word family

1 related words
Relatederight

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
argumentativeariaaridarielariseB1aristocracyB2aristocrat

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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