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

  • ` ` Then they kind of straighten their faces out. '' ...
  • Does it mean pick up as in "straighten" or pick up as in "yank up?"
  • 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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