Straighten

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make or become straight or straighter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cause to become straight.
  • v. To become straight.
  • v. To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
  • v. To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
  • v. To bribe or corrupt.
  • v. To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
  • v. To make right or correct; to reduce to order.
  • v. A variant of straiten.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make straight, in any sense; specifically, to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
  • To become straight; assume a straight form.
  • See straiten.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make straight
  • v. make straight or straighter
  • v. put (things or places) in order
  • v. straighten up or out; make straight
  • v. straighten by unrolling
  • v. get up from a sitting or slouching position
  • Antonym
    curve   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    arrange    set up    change posture    unwind    disentangle   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    straiten   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    straight   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aten    Clayton    Dayton    Deighton    Drayton    Layton    Leighton    Payton    Peyton    Satan   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts