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verb

Straighten v. t. (past & past part. straighted; pres. part. straighting)

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.

To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

Straighten v. t. A variant of Straiten. (Obs. or R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to straighten out our line so as to get it level with Ypres, and the whole position all around was a very perilous one. We were short of men—very short—and had practically no reserves. Almost every available man ...

— A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire • Harold Harvey

... having ..." said Mrs. Flanders, and paused, for she was cutting out a dress and had to straighten the pattern, ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... don't kill him. I've got a 'few things I want to straighten out with him, if we ever get out of here alive, and I don't want him dead when I do ...

— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams

... the kind of woman whom young people, past the lunacies of sixteen, invariably like. The feminine portion told her their love troubles, the young wives came to her with tangles and little jealousies; and, if she could not always straighten them out, she had a marvellous way of comforting. Young men drifted toward her by some species of magnetism, though she had none of the fussy motherliness of some old ladies. With faculties still keen and bright, a great ...

— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas

... lying miraculously balanced upon the back of a pew a little distance in front of him, and upon the upturned bottom of the soup-plate was a brown cocoanut. Mildly surprised, Penrod yawned, and, in the effort to straighten his eyes, came to life temporarily. The cocoanut was revealed as Georgie Bassett's head, and the soup-plate as Georgie's white collar. Georgie was sitting up straight, as he always did in church, and Penrod found this vertical rectitude unpleasant. He knew that he had more to fear from the ...

— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington

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