STRAIGHTEN

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

2.
v.

To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

3.
v.

A variant of Straiten. [Obs. or R.]

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