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Meanings of straighten in English

Portuguese
arrumar
Catalan
redreçar
Spanish
levantar

Put (things or places) in order.

      arrumar
      Catalan
      posar dret

      Straighten up or out; make straight.

          posar dret
          Spanish
          enderezar

          Straighten by unrolling.

                enderezar
                Usage of straighten in English
                1
                But I want to straighten out Sarah Cartwright as soon as possible.
                Report for Murder
                2
                Miranda with a few minutes of privacy: Find clothes, straighten the bedspread.
                The whole world: a novel
                3
                Are thousands of them hunched at the wheel unable to straighten up?
                The Irish Times
                4
                He had seen that Allday was unable to straighten his back properly.
                Success to the Brave
                5
                I recover from the back-slapping and straighten up: It's going well, Harry.
                The Fuller Memorandum
                6
                And it is not simply teenagers seeking to straighten their pearly whites.
                The Irish Times
                7
                I have an idea that I shall straighten out this tangle yet.
                Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
                8
                In summer, I straighten from working the veg garden to take notice.
                The Guardian
                9
                Now it's gotten to the point where even she couldn't straighten out.
                The new yorker
                10
                And those are the furrows I have been trying to straighten out.
                Stories Worth Rereading
                11
                This time he rolled five feet before stopping to straighten himself out.
                Misery
                12
                Now straighten your legs and let your rifle go to the ground.
                Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
                13
                Fizban tried, without much success, to straighten his bent and shapeless hat.
                Dragons of autumn twilight
                14
                And bit by bit the fiction let him straighten out his life.
                In the night room: a novel
                15
                After a couple of years I had to straighten it out again.
                Read-Aloud Plays
                16
                As usual, she helped Minnie clear away the dishes and straighten up.
                Sister Carrie: A Novel
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                Translations for straighten
                Straighten through the time
                Straighten across language varieties
                United States of America
                Common
                United Kingdom
                Common