What's the difference between righten and righter?

Righten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To do justice to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Washington rightened themselves a bit in the fourth quarter, even building up a nine-point lead, but Indiana kept chipping away.
  • (2) The intra-SI injection (ipsilateral to the kindled AM) induced a transient incoordination followed by immobility with loss of the rightening reflex, beginning at about 5 min following the injection and lasting for about 3 h. When the animals were stimulated at the previously established generalized seizure triggering threshold (GST) 45 min after the injection, the kindled seizure regressed to earlier stages although the afterdischarge (AD) duration remained unchanged.
  • (3) Eight months after the onset, she was left with bradykinesia, disturbance of rightening reflex, emotional lability and impairment of recent memory with a long period of amnesia, including not only her illness and subsequent events but also about several years before her illness.

Righter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the same time, the condensed chromatin of most of hepatocytes reveals a righter packing of DNA fibrils.

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