Another word for straighten
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Verb
To make even, smooth, or level
- Having a surface free from irregularities, roughness, or projections; even.
- Free from waves or disturbances; calm:
- Free from hair, whiskers, or stubble:
- A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.
- A flat or level surface.
- A level of development, existence, or achievement:
- Relative position or rank on a scale:
- A relative degree, as of achievement, intensity, or concentration:
- A natural or proper position, place, or stage:
- To make flat or flatter.
- To knock down; lay low:
- To become flat or flatter.
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
- Having a horizontal surface; flat:
- Having no irregularities, roughness, or indentations; smooth.
- Being in the same plane or line; parallel:
See also:To make or keep (an area) clean and orderly.
- Orderly and clean in appearance:
- Given to keeping things clean and in order:
- Adequate; satisfactory:
- Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Picea, having flattened or four-angled needlelike leaves, a conic shape, pendulous cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp.
- Any of various similar or related trees.
- The wood of any of these trees.
- A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.
- A body of persons with a similar organization and function:
- Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.
- To put into order; make neat.
- Free from clouds, mist, or haze:
- Not obscured or darkened; bright:
- Easily seen through; transparent:
See also:
Idioms:
To bring (something) into a state of agreement or accord
straighten out
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Another word for straighten
Verb
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- To put back into proper order or alignment:
- To cause to form new arrangements or to have a new orientation; reorganize:
- To arrange in a line or so as to be parallel:
- To adjust (parts of a mechanism, for example) to produce a proper relationship or orientation:
- To ally (oneself, for example) with one side of an argument or cause:
- To put into a specific order or relation; dispose:
- To plan or prepare for:
- To bring about or come to an agreement concerning; settle:
- Relative position or rank on a scale:
- A relative degree, as of achievement, intensity, or concentration:
- A natural or proper position, place, or stage:
- To open and spread out (something folded); extend.
- To remove the coverings from; disclose to view:
- To reveal gradually by written or spoken explanation; make known:
- To unwind from or as if from a curl, coil, spiral, or curled position:
- To become unwound from a curl:
- To undo or ravel the entangled, knitted, or woven threads of:
- To undo or separate (entangled, knitted, or woven threads).
- To clarify the elements of (something mysterious or baffling); solve:
- To unwind or untwist or to become unwound or untwisted.
- To release from mental tension, strain, or formality; relax.
- To release (a bow, for example) from flexure or tension.
- To untie or loosen (a rope or sail).
- To free of snarls; disentangle.
- To loosen or separate (something twisted) by turning in the opposite direction; unwind.
- To become untwisted.
- To set right; correct:
- To correct by calculation or adjustment:
- To refine or purify, especially by distillation.
- To make up the constituent parts of; constitute or form:
- To make or create by putting together parts or elements.
- To create or produce (a literary or musical piece).
- A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group.
- A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved:
- Condition or state in general:
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