Straighten

What do we mean by straighten?

To make or become straight or straighter. transitive & intransitive verb

To resolve (a confusion or conflict). phrasal verb

To make less confused or troubled. phrasal verb

To make straight, in any sense; specifically, to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

To become straight; assume a straight form.

See straiten.

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

To make right or correct; to reduce to order. transitive verb

To cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features. transitive verb

A variant of straiten. transitive verb

To cause to become straight. verb

To become straight. verb

To put in order; to sort; to tidy up. verb

To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience). verb

To bribe or corrupt. verb

To stand up, especially from a sitting position. verb

Make straight verb

Make straight or straighter verb

Put (things or places) in order verb

Straighten up or out; make straight verb

To cause to become straight.

To become straight.

To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.

To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).

To bribe or corrupt.

To stand up, especially from a sitting position.

To pay off a 'bent' or corrupt official Urban Dictionary

A straightener in Liverpool is a fight between 2 people to settle their differences. - Not just a punch Urban Dictionary

A reference to cocaine, coke, blow, snow, reference from the HBO show Succession. Roy Kendall refers to cocaine as a “straightener” to accommodate as a short term sobering agent. Urban Dictionary

A small number of alcoholic drinks to regain one's composure after a stressful experience Urban Dictionary

Liverpool word used by chavs (scallies - Tracksuit wearing pricks)meaning to give someone a heafty punch in the face Urban Dictionary

Having curly hair cut short but still leaving it long enough to straighten... Urban Dictionary

The act of making a super hot lesbian straight by waving your dicks in their face Urban Dictionary

A term used by a middle aged, obese, melodramatic, sweaty, cowardly, bully who can’t walk more than 10 yards without needing a shit, a bag of crisps and a can of coke in order to catch his breath. The term is believed to originate in Yiewsley and is used by twats/chavs that still wear football shirts despite approaching 50 years old. Urban Dictionary

Short for hair straighteners (or irons). Quicker and easier to say than hair straighteners. Urban Dictionary

Verb: When a man has sex with a self-proclaimed lesbian and the lesbian becomes straight. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to straighten:
straighten, straighted, straighter, streighten, straight, straiten, straightly, straightest, straights, straight on, straightens, straughter, straight a, straight-a, straight men.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word straighten:
widen, kinky, straightened, sharper, curly, crooked, hair, rotate, spine, mess, bent, curves, fingers, bend, wrist, elbow, finances, nat, teeth, roadway, muscles, knee, blade, strengthen, fly, legs, curve, arm, flooding, things, leg, straight, remix, push, angle, bowling, sections, cole, your, smooth, tool, everything, hip, situation, joint, avoid, arms, flow, path, surgery, thing, edge, tunnel, lines, solid.

Words that rhyme with straighten:
satan, straiten, paten, aten, creighton, lateen, statin, shaitan, latten, laten, greaten, dayton, payton, ratan, clayton, peyton, platan, batan, leighton, drayton, shaytan, deighton, layton, iatan, natan, originate in, slaten, slayton, crayton, katyn, cayton, brayton, freight ton, culminate in, gaytan, hayton, eyton, deadweight ton, gayton, mayton, stayton, weight ton, abate in, abbreviate in, abdicate in, accelerate in, accommodate in, accumulate in, acetate in, activate in, adjudicate in, affiliate in, agglomerate in, agglutinate in, aggravate in, agitate in, alienate in, alleviate in, allocate in, amalgamate in, annihilate in, anticipate in, applegate in, appreciate in, arbitrate in, articulate in, aspirate in, assimilate in, ate in, attenuate in, authenticate in, automate in, await in, ay ton, bait in, bate in, beit in, beta in, bifurcate in, birthrate in, bishopsgate in, boilerplate in, braithwaite in, bray ton, breastplate in, calculate in, calibrate in, carbohydrate in, carbonate in, cate in, cay ton, celebrate in, checkmate in, circulate in, classmate in, clay ton, coagulate in, collaborate in, commemorate in, communicate in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe straighten:
trunk.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective straighten:
tool, option.

Consonant match to straighten:
straiten, stratton, strutton, st ann, st an, st anne, st in, st on, st turn, straight in, strait in, strata in, street an, street ann, street in, street inn, street on, street turn, streit in, strut in, strut on.

Words that sound like straighten:
straighten, straiten, stratton, strutton, straight on, straton, streighten, streiten, straighting, straightened, straightener, stratum, straightens, straight a, straitened, stridden, strutting, statin, straight pin, strahan, strata, staten, staton, strachan, stoughton, straight line, steeton, struan, statton, straight man, straughan, streetman, stratman, street team, straight chain, straight-line, stretta, stouten, stating, straying, striding, straightening, ceratin, straightedge, straight edge, straight hair, stettin, serrating, straight-edge, straight guy, strayhorn, straight, station, certain, satan, strain, strait, stockton, stanton, straighter, straits, strate, straights, straightaway, strane, spray tan, strada, straightly, straighteners, stay down, statum, staunton, straight away, straightway, starten, serration, straight up, sterman, scruton, straight out, sertan, straighten out, serotine, straitly, iterating, stratal, sartan, straighten up, straight-up, scrutin, strati, certaine, strahlen, strait up, c-ration, stayed on, stenton, sarton, straight teeth, straight-out.