straighten out

Verb

Meaning

put (things or places) in order

make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

extricate from entanglement

settle or put right

change for the better

make straight

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

clear reform illuminate crystallize elucidate straighten tidy enlighten sort out disentangle clean up clear up tidy up shed light on put right

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Antonyms

lower reduce damage break decline drop

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Hypernyms

order change better improve alter modify

Hyponyms

ravel make comb extend clean make-up

Examples

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. Langston Hughes

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. Billy Graham

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it. Debbie Harry

What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable. François Hollande

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. Bill Lee

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders. Gail Collins

Close letter words and terms

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