Straightened

Word STRAIGHTENED
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Definitions and meanings of "Straightened"

What do we mean by straightened?

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.

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The word "straightened" in example sentences

Daishin straightened out his lab coat and said, “I see Dr. Hopkins has returned, and appears to be functioning normally. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ok, a quick phone call straightened out his new preferred location for us in the gallery for tonight that was perfectly acceptable. ❋ Badger (2003)

At last he straightened from a weedy pool and in one swift stretching motion shed his few clothes. ❋ Unknown (1939)

We noticed that whenever she straightened from the table she grunted. ❋ Unknown (1916)

It's kind of hard to see in that photograph but it looks like, yet again, they're giving Ben "good hair," which is to say straightened and parted on the side, as if Ben rolled into a Pittsburgh barber's shop and said "Gimme a John Gavin." ❋ Arbogast (2008)

I found this frustrating and confusing until I realized their messages were consistent once you got the terms straightened out. ❋ James P. Womack (2003)

But when he heard his name he straightened up and looked at me. ❋ Walter Mosley (2002)

You could -- if we can't get all our titles straightened out, you could give us all -- we could all shift and take one another's job and we couldn't repeal the changes. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

Poor Porter outlived Oldfield for more than thirty years and, having also outlived an annuity settled upon herself, spent her declining days in what polite writers call straightened circumstances. ❋ Edward Robins (1902)

Hunter and I talked and we kind of straightened all our stuff away. ❋ Cindy Boren (2010)

I had to laugh, we have "straightened" our tree 4 times and it is still leaning about 5-10 degrees. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He pulled out a sheet of note-paper and began to write at random, while the man, entering, put the lamp at his elbow and vaguely "straightened" the heap of newspapers tossed on the divan. ❋ Unknown (1912)

It had been swept, indeed, and "straightened," as he called it, by a young gentleman, whose duty it was to be in attendance at all hours from sunrise to sunset, when nobody else was in the way, and who fulfilled that duty by slipping out on such available occasions to join the youth of the quarter in sports of clamour, strength, and skill. ❋ G.J. Whyte-Melville (1849)

The chicane - comprising of a right turn, then long left curve - is located at the end of the back straight and now has a much faster entry, with the previous 90-degree right having been significantly 'straightened' (pictured). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hunter and I talked and we kind of straightened all our stuff away. ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

She kind of straightened it out and hit the railroad tracks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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