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straighten
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. straighten up or out; make straight [syn: unbend ] [ant: bend ] make straight [syn: straighten out ] get up from a sitting or slouching position; "The students straightened when the teacher entered" put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Straighten \Straight"en\, v. t. A variant of Straiten . [Obs. or R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s (transitive), from straight (adj.1) + -en (1). Intransitive sense from 1891. Related: Straightened ; straightening ; straightener . The Middle English verb was simply straight (late 14c.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES straighten/square your shoulders (= stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way ) ▪ She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB out ▪ It certainly would have straightened ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to become straight. 2 (context intransitive English) To become straight. 3 (context transitive English) To put in order#Adjective; to sort#Verb; to tidy up.
Usage examples of straighten.
Already, with actorish skills, he was firming up his eyes and straightening his back.
Then he straightened out the ailerons and elevators, and began to run on a level keel.
He straightened himself and shifted his body well forward on the flimsy little aluminium platform and gripped the steering-arm, keeping his elbows well in to his sides.
The big amphibian went into a barrel roll, straightened out and dived.
By and by I got it straightened out into the anagram business Macgillivray had mentioned.
In one smooth motion, the Argon straightened to his full height, then proceeded to gaze down at her.
By the time Arista came over to straighten me out, I had what I needed.
He straightened his back, leant forward again so his face was close to mine and I got almost as much of his cancer stick smoke as if I had after all kept the one he had given me.
He leaned towards Atene, drawn perhaps by the passion shining in her beauteous eyes, then of a sudden straightened himself, shook his head and sighed.
Straightening, he went out to Azar who now stood with her hand lightly resting on the wall.
Hogan heard the volley, very distantly, and then came the bells clamouring and he straightened his uniform, took off his bicorne hat, and went into the Cathedral.
Mrs Biggs straightened up and went through to the gyp room to make coffee while Zipser shifted feebly in the chair.
Morgan smoothed his cowlick and straightened the collar on his best blue shirt as he sat in his buckboard gazing down the road.
He straightened in his saddle, and it seemed to Sam that his metallic gaze fell on each bushwhacker in turn.
He straightened his back and looked down the byre as if seeing into the past.