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Meanings of straighten out in English

Portuguese
elucidar

Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.

      elucidar
      Portuguese
      arrumar
      Catalan
      redreçar
      Spanish
      levantar

      Put (things or places) in order.

          arrumar
          Catalan
          desenredar
          Spanish
          desenredar

          Extricate from entanglement.

              desenredar
              Portuguese
              resolver

              Settle or put right.

                    resolver
                    Usage of straighten out in English
                    1
                    But I want to straighten out Sarah Cartwright as soon as possible.
                    Report for Murder
                    2
                    I have an idea that I shall straighten out this tangle yet.
                    Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
                    3
                    Now it's gotten to the point where even she couldn't straighten out.
                    The new yorker
                    4
                    And those are the furrows I have been trying to straighten out.
                    Stories Worth Rereading
                    5
                    And bit by bit the fiction let him straighten out his life.
                    In the night room: a novel
                    6
                    They thought it was funny, but my back never did straighten out.
                    Lonesome dove
                    7
                    And now there are all sorts of business things to straighten out.
                    The Visioning: A Novel
                    8
                    He would go back, of course, and straighten out the old score.
                    A Voice in the Wilderness
                    9
                    Sometimes that will brace a person up and straighten out his stomach.
                    Frank Merriwell's Nobility; Or, The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp
                    10
                    He wanted me to try to straighten out some of his wrongdoings.
                    Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal; Or, Perils of the Black Bear Patro...
                    11
                    Pull the sheets tight, plump up the pillows, straighten out the covers.
                    Kafka on the Shore
                    12
                    The soybean situation may take two growing cycles to straighten out.
                    Reuters
                    13
                    Perhaps in the telling, we can straighten out our own ideas a bit.
                    The Black Star Passes
                    14
                    Bungled openings of terminals from London to Denver took months to straighten out.
                    Reuters
                    15
                    It took him five minutes to straighten out the twin's misconception.
                    Timescape
                    16
                    But we can cultivate acquaintance later; now I must straighten out this affair.
                    Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier
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                    Translations for straighten out
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