straighten
/ˈstɹeɪtn̩/ verb B2- To cause to become straight.
- To become straight.
- To put in order; to sort; to tidy up. · to straighten one's affairs· straighten one's account
- To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
- To bribe or corrupt.
- To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
- To make heterosexual.
He/she/it straightens · Past straightened · Past participle straightened · -ing form straightening
Verb forms
- Base form
- straighten
- He/she/it
- straightens
- Past
- straightened
- Past participle
- straightened
- -ing form
- straightening
From the library
And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, “Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?”
So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.
“Oh, Marilla!” Anne straightened to her knees and clasped her hands.
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.
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