Straighten

Definition: Straighten

Straighten

Verb

1. Straighten up or out; make straight.

2. Make straight.

3. Get up from a sitting or lying position; "The audience rose when then conductor entered the orchestra pit"; "Rise from your chair".

4. Put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!".

5. Straighten by unrolling; "roll out the big map".

6. Make straight or straighter; "Straighten this post"; "straighten hair".

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

Date "straighten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Straighten

Compromise

Verb: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms; (contract); submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed.

Straightness

Render straight, straighten, rectify; set straight, put straight; unbend, unfold, uncurl; unravel; unwrap.

Crosswords: Straighten

I guess I should straighten my life out, huh (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Your mother moved your diary when she came in to straighten up. I watched her from the closet (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Gotta straighten out that closet one of these days (Heavenly Days; writing credit: Howard Estabrook)

Oh, great, that solves everything for me. I'll just go down to the school and straighten it out with the teacher, no problem (The Karate Kid; writing credit: Robert Mark Kamen)

Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out. See (The Little Mermaid; writing credit: Roger Allers; Hans Christian Andersen)

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

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Books

• Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• 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

• Rockin' Chair/Lets Straighten [IMPORT] (reference)

• Straighten It Out: The Best of Latimore (reference)

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

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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It's certainly a mess, son, maybe you can straighten it out. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And old people curled up in corners and died that way, so that the coroners could not straighten them

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Health

In some cases, an implant alone will straighten the penis adequately. (references)

In other cases, implantation is combined with a technique of incisions and grafting or plication (pinching or folding the skin) if the implant alone does not straighten the penis. (references)

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Expressions using "straighten": straighten one's back ♦ straighten oneself up ♦ straighten out ♦ straighten smb. out ♦ straighten up ♦ To straighten one's face. Additional references.

Albanian

sqaroj (clarify, dissolve, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, explain, gloss, illuminate, illustrate, sharpen, straighten out), shpjegoj (account for, clarify, construe, define, elucidate, explain, expound, interpret, justify, make understand, straighten out, take to pieces, tell, unriddle), rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, tidy up, trim), rregullohem (adjust, look up), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), ndreqem (settle down), ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, tidy up, touch up, tune up), korrigjoj (blue pencil, correct, emend, make amends, re establish, readjust, rearrange, reclaim, rectify, red pencil, reform, repair, retouch, retrieve, vet), drejtohem (accost, call on, destine, move, refer, resort, strike out, wend, wend one's way). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوم (adjust, appraise, assess, calibrate, correct, esteem, estimate, evaluate, folk, guess, horde, measure, nation, people, prize, rate, reckon, rectify, reform, value), ‏سوى (accommodate, adjust, but, compose, compound, dispose, equalize, equate, even, flatten, normalize, patch, regularize, settle, smooth), ‏عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, temper), ‏إستقام (go straight, unbend), ‏إعتدل, ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, tidy, trim). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ставам отново порядъчен, слагам в ред (get together, iron out, order), оправям се (improve, manage, recuperate, rub through, worry along), оправям (adjust, disembroil, disentangle, do a room, heal, make, patch, planish, pull round, pull through, put in order, put right, readjust, right, righten, set right, sleave, tide, true, unbend, unkink, unravel, wipe up), поправям се (amend, reform), изпъвам се (tauten, tense), изпъвам (strain, tauten, tense), изправям се (get up, head, right, rise), изправям (detect, erect, peak, planish, put up, raise, rectify, remedy, repair, right, righten, set right, stand up, true, uncurl, unkink). (various references)

Chinese 

调直, 弄直 . (various references)

Czech

narovnat (put things straight, right, unbend, uncurl). (various references)

Danish

varmstraekke (to straighten by heating, to straighten hot, to straighten under heat), udstrække (to smooth, to straighten), udrette (to smooth, to straighten), oprette skinner (to straighten rails), opretning af et borehul (to straighten a drill hole), at rette (to straighten). (various references)

Dutch

spoorstaven richten (to straighten rails), warm richten (to straighten by heating, to straighten hot, to straighten under heat), richten (direct, guide, manage, steer), een boorgat rechttrekken (to straighten a drill hole). (various references)

Farsi 

مرتب کردن (Address, Arrange, Concert, Marshal, Range, Redd, Regularize, Serialize, Tidy), راست کردن (Erect, Unbend), درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Clean, Compose, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Regulate, Right, Trim, Weave). (various references)

Finnish

suoristaa (rectify), ojentua, oikoa (rectify, set right), oikaista (correct, lie down, put right, rectify, stretch oneself, take somebody up), oieta (come uncurled, unbend). (various references)

French

se tenir droit, se redresser (sit up straight, stand up), se défausser, ranger (Stow), mettre en ordre, devenir droit, défausser (straighten out), décrêper, ajuster. (various references)

German

gerade machen (straightening), gerade werden. (various references)

Greek 

ισιώνω, ισιάζω (unbend), ευθύνω (to straighten). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפשט (simplify), להתישר, לסדר (arrange, array, fix, ordain, order, organize, put in order, put things straight, settle, trim). (various references)

Hungarian

kiegyenesedik (to rear oneself up, to straighten, to straighten one's back, unbend), kiegyenesít (align, conk, erect, to even, to hone, to rectify, to set aright, to straighten, unbend). (various references)

Indonesian

membetulkan (rectify, repair), membetul, membenarkan (approve of, compensate, confirm, corroborate, justify), meluruskan (align). (various references)

Italian

stirare (iron, iron out, press, strain a muscle, stretch, to iron), raddrizzarsi (unbend), raddrizzare (correct, right, straighten oneself up, straighten out, unbend), mettere a posto, drizzarsi (rise, stand up), drizzare (prick up, straighten out), correggersi, correggere (adjust, amend, correct, correct oneself, edit, emend, mend, pep up, rectify, revise), aggiustarsi (mend). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

矯める (to correct, to cure, to falsify, to straighten). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ためる (to accumulate, to amass, to correct, to cure, to falsify, to save, to straighten), ただす (to adjust, to amend, to ascertain, to ask a person about, to correct, to query, to redress, to reform, to straighten, to verify), しせいをただす (to straighten oneself), せいよう (rest, straighten one's posture, the west, Western countries), かたづける (to put away, to put in order, to straighten up, to tidy up), りかにかんむりをたださず (avoiding the appearance of evil, don't straighten your crown under a pear tree), えりをただす (to straighten oneself), えだをためる (to straighten a branch). (various references)

Manx

jeeraghey (aim, erect, focus, level, point, rectification, rectifier, straightening, train, train as gun, unbend), chionney (clench, cog, erection, fasten, grit, inflate, momentum, oblige, press, pressurize, pump up, put on, screw up, strain, tauten, tighten). (various references)

Pig Latin

aightenstray.(various references)

Portuguese

pôr em ordem (clean up, order, settle, sort, straighten out, trim), endireitar-se, endireitar (to straighten a drill hole), desempenar (dress, planish, unbend), arrumar (arrange, array, clear up, fettle, fix up, groom, pack up, pigeonhole, put in order, stow, tidy). (various references)

Romanian

strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), se îndrepta (bear, bear in with, draw, head, line out, make, make for, mend one's ways, stand, take to, trend towards, unbend), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), redresa (re establish, recover, reestablish, right), aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, juggle, Marshal, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redeem, redress, reduce, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, tend, train, unbend). (various references)

Russian 

выпрямлять (erect, flatten, rectify, unbend, unbent). (various references)

Scottish

dìrich (climb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uspraviti (hold up, upend), ispraviti (amend, rectify, redress, revise, set right, set straight, unbend, uncurl, untwist). (various references)

Spanish

enderezarse (level off, lever, unbend). (various references)

Swazi

ku-cóndzisa (to straighten). (various references)

Swedish

bli rak. (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ตรง, กลายเป็นตรง. (various references)

Turkish

yoluna koymak (arrange, clean up, regulate, slot, straighten out, tune), yoluna girmek, 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 up, take off), doğrusunu açıklamak (straighten out), doğrultmak (aim, Orient, orientate, Plumb, point, present, range, rectify, right, train, true up, unbend, uncross, up with), doğrulmak (flatten out, get on, straight oneself up, straighten up), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), düzelmek (ameliorate, amend, come along, do better, get better, improve, look up, meliorate, mend, recover, refine, reform, smooth down). (various references)

Turkmen 

endiganlamak (clip, level), dikeltmek (set straight). (various references)

Ukrainian

розгинатися, випрямлятися (unbend), випрямляти (erect, unbend), давати лад (adjust, clear up, reinstate). (various references)

Welsh

sythu (starve with cold, stiffen), unioni (adjust, make for, rectify). (various references)

gerihtan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "straighten": straightened, straightener, straighteners, straightening, straightens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Straighten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: straightend, straighthen, straigten, streghten. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shattering.

-1 letter: gnathites, ingathers, restating, retasting, threating.

-2 letters: angriest, astringe, earthing, estating, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gitterns, gnathite, gnattier, granites, hairnets, hearings, hearsing, hearting, hesitant, inearths, ingather, ingrates, intreats, nitrates, rangiest, rightest, shearing, starting, straight, straiten, strength, tangiest, tertians, tightens, trashing, treating.

-3 letters: aigrets, anestri, anthers, antsier, argents, artiest, artiste, atheist, athirst, attires, earings, easting, eatings.

+1 letter: heartstring, straightens.

+2 letters: airtightness, heartstrings, shatteringly, straightened, straightener, straightness, stringhalted.

+3 letters: orchestrating, straighteners, straightening, theatergoings, thermostating.

+4 letters: airtightnesses, straightnesses, thermostatting, watertightness.

+5 letters: orthogonalities, reorchestrating.