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Verb (usu participle)
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straight=en

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb straighten has 6 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

straightenv. t. 
  •  To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.  [1913 Webster]
To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.
straightenv. t. 
     A variant of Straiten.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

straighten, v.tr. & intr.
1 (often foll. by out) make or become straight.
2 (foll. by up) stand erect after bending.

Derivative
straightener n.

THESAURUS

straighten

adjust, arrange, clean up, clear up, correct, disentangle, neaten, organize, put in order, rearrange, rectify, reform, rehabilitate, reorganize, resolve, settle, sort out, spruce up, straighten out, tidy up, uncurl, unkink, unravel, unsnarl, untangle

ROGET THESAURUS

straighten

Straightness

VB be straight, have no turning, not incline to either side, not bend to either side, not turn to either side, not deviate to either side, go straight, steer for, render straight, straighten, rectify, set straight, put straight, unbend, unfold, uncurl &c, unravel, unwrap.

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