Verb
To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.
A variant of Straiten.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. Warren G. Harding
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. Langston Hughes
Don't you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn't the mirror hostile enough? Jeanette Winterson
In trying to straighten the horns you kill the ox. Japanese Proverb
Before the bending arm straighten, or before the straighten arm bends. Myanmar Proverb
branches straighten. Arabic Proverb