straighten

Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

tidy unbend clean up roll out straighten out tidy up neaten square away aline curry unroll right order level clear
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Antonyms

bend arch ridge bob crouch half-moon
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Hypernyms

order change alter modify arrange unwind

Hyponyms

make comb extend rear clean make-up

Phrases with the word

straighten up and fly right straighten one's face straighten one's back

Derivatives

straighted straighting

Anagrams

shattering

Examples

I 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

Close letter words and terms

straightdar straightedge straightedge and compass geometry straighten one's back straighten one's face straighten out