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straightening

sustantivo C2

En español: enderezamiento, alisado

  1. The act of making something straight.

Plural straightenings

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De la biblioteca

The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 44 · B2
It happened, however, that my own affairs needed a lot of straightening out, after two years' absence, and so it is only this week that I have been able to take up Godfrey's case again.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 4 · B2

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