to be put straight
111remedy — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abet, aid, allayment, alleviate, alleviation, ameliorate, amend, amends, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, answer, antacid, antidote, appeasement, assist, assistance, assuagement, avail, bail out,… …
112remunerate — Synonyms and related words: accord, amend, award, compensate, correct, emend, fee, give satisfaction, grant, guerdon, indemnify, make all square, make good, make right, pay, pay by installments, pay on, pay reparations, prepay, put right, put… …
113requite — Synonyms and related words: alternate, amend, atone, avenge, bandy, be quits with, change, commute, compensate, compensate for, content, cooperate, correct, counterchange, emend, exchange, get back at, get even with, get satisfaction, give and… …
114show up — Synonyms and related words: accomplish, achieve, appear, approach, arise, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, assister, attain, attain to, attend, awaken, bare, be at, be evident, be found, be noticeable, be present at, be received, be revealed, be… …
115disabuse — I verb acquaint, admonish, advise, air, announce, apprise, awaken, brief, clear the mind, communicate, convey, correct, debunk, direct the attention to, disclose, disillusion, divulge, edify, educate, enlarge the mind, enlighten, eripere, expose …
116disappoint — Synonyms and related words: awaken, baffle, balk, beat, bilk, break the spell, burst the bubble, cast down, circumvent, correct, cross, dash, debunk, deceive, defeat, defeat expectation, disabuse, discontent, disenchant, disgruntle, dishearten,… …
117flatten — Synonyms and related words: align, assimilate to, balance, beat down, bend, blow down, break, break down, bring down, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down, conquer, crush, cut down, dab, damp, demolish, disentangle, down, drag, dress, dub,… …
118stand up — Synonyms and related words: answer, arise, ascend, avail, be consistent, be equal to, be erect, be proof against, be the case, be true, be truthful, bear, bear up, bear up against, bristle, cock up, come up, come up fighting, conform to fact,… …
119correct — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. improve, rectify, [set] right, remedy, repair, amend, reform, better; edit, mark; reprove, punish, chastise, discipline; counteract, neutralize. See improvement, punishment. adj. right, regular,… …
120dress — [14] Dress originally meant literally ‘put right, put straight’. It comes via Old French dresser from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiāre, a derivative of Latin dīrectus ‘straight’ (from which English gets direct). Traces of this underlying sense survive in …
