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straighten verb [ ˈstreɪt(ə)n ]

• make or become straight.
• "she helped him straighten his tie"
Similar: make straight, align, adjust, arrange, rearrange, tidy, make tidy, neaten, spruce up, uncoil, unkink, uncurl,
• make tidy or put in order again.
• "he sat down at his desk, straightening his things that Lee had moved"
Similar: put/set right, sort out, iron out, clear up, settle, resolve, find a solution to, put in order, tidy up, regulate, regularize, rectify, repair, remedy, disentangle, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, patch up,
Opposite: confuse, complicate,


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