straighten
IPA: strˈeɪtʌn
verb
- (transitive) To cause to become straight.
- (intransitive) To become straight.
- (transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
- (transitive) To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
- (transitive, slang) To bribe or corrupt.
- (intransitive) To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
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Examples of "straighten" in Sentences
- Straighten up and get better posture.
- The route straightens out to the north.
- The project straightened a curve along the highway.
- ` ` Then they kind of straighten their faces out. '' ...
- Somebody has to straighten the deck chairs on the Titanic.
- Wikipedia is the ideal place to straighten out the problem.
- Straighten the leg at the knee, pushing the heel out in front.
- Ask the casualty to bend and straighten the fingers and elbows.
- It came across the page and tryed to straighten out the references.
- Does it mean pick up as in "straighten" or pick up as in "yank up?"
- The primary function of the extensors is to straighten out the digits.
- Hopefully the bureaucrats can straighten out the error with the edits.
- Senior analyst Jeff Greenfield is here to kind of straighten it all out for us.
- Elizabeth Cohen, you are able to kind of straighten this out for us a little bit.
- Phil Bowermaster endeavors to "straighten" the public out on two issues on which it is "desperately misinformed."
- It is hard to imagine that Scott and Paxton intended the scene in this way, given their other overt attempts to "straighten" The Brick Foxhole.
- Some genius has started a Pisa pushers group on Flicker, featuring third party pics of tourists attempting to 'straighten' the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- Similarly, despite the efforts of Scott and Paxton to "straighten" The Brick Foxhole, the homosocial and potentially homoerotic bonds between men represented by Brooks could not be completely excised from Crossfire.
- Went down stairs for dinner around 9pm where we were waited upon by a Chateau waiter who was fully obsessive compulsive and actually came by to "straighten" my silver wear at one point and bullied us into all ordering the same beverage.
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