Straighten Up

Definition: Straighten Up

Straighten Up

Verb

1. Straighten oneself; "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Straighten Up

Crosswords: Straighten Up

Gotta straighten up your act and boogie down (Off the Wall; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Straighten Up and Fly Right: A Chronology and Discography of Nat 'King' Cole (Discographies, No 56) (reference)

• The Everything Organize Your Home Book: Straighten Up the Entire House, from Cleaning Your Closets to Rerorganizing Your Kitchen (Everything Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Straighten Up and Fly Right [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Arabic 

‏إنتصب (rear, recover, sit up, stand up, stick). (various references)

Finnish

suoristaa vartalonsa. (various references)

French

redresser. (various references)

German

sich aufrichten (pick oneself up, sit up, sit up straight, stand up, stand up straight, unbend), zurechtrücken (adjust, manipulate, put straight, straighten out), aufrichten (erect, erection, help up, put upright, raise up, set up, set upright, straighten, to sit up, uplift). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ז�"קף (prick up, stand upright). (various references)

Hungarian

rendbe rak (to make up, to place in order, to reinstate, to square away, to straighten, to tidy, to tidy up). (various references)

Indonesian

mengatur (dispose, modulate, organize, oversee, regulate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

片付ける　 (to put away, to put in order, to straighten up, to tidy up), 片付ける (to put away, to put in order, to straighten up, to tidy up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かたづける (to put away, to put in order, to straighten up, to tidy up). (various references)

Pig Latin

aightenstray upay

Spanish

erguirse (draw up, prick, sit up straight, straighten, swell with pride). (various references)

Turkish

kalkmak (arise, get a hard on, get up, have a hard on, leave, lift, lift off, pull, pull away, pull away from the kerb, rise, stand on, stand up, stand upon, start, straighten, take off), doğrulmak (flatten out, get on, straight oneself up, straighten). (various references)

Turkmen 

dograltmak. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: naughtiest, pretasting, shattering, shuttering, spattering, sputtering, straighten, supergiant, supertight, upstarting.

-3 letters: earthnuts, gauntries, gnathites, graphites, hungriest, ingathers, naughtier, pantheist, pasturing, pattering, perianths, puttering, repasting, reshaping, restating, retasting, signature, spaghetti, straphung, superthin, therapist, theurgist, threaping, threating, thrusting, trapesing, triptanes, upgathers, upsetting, upstaring, uptearing.

-4 letters: angriest, antirust, astringe, earthing, earthnut, erupting, estating, gahnites, ganister, gantries.

+4 letters: hyperstimulating, neuropathologist.

+5 letters: neuropathologists.