Synonyms of the word straighten


STRAIGHTENALTER - ARRANGE - CHANGE - DISENTANGLE - MODIFY - NEATEN - ORDER - TIDY - UNBEND - UNWIND

straighten

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become straight.
  • v. (intransitive) To become straight.
  • v. (transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
  • v. (transitive) To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To bribe or corrupt.
  • v. (intransitive) To stand up, especially from a sitting position.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

arrange

  • v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • v. To put in order, to organize.
  • v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

disentangle

  • v. (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
  • v. (transitive) To unravel a mystery etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To become free or untangled.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

neaten

  • v. To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.

order

  • n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
  • n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
  • n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
  • n. (countable) A command.
  • n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
  • n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
  • n. (countable) An association of knights.
  • n. any group of people with common interests.
  • n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
  • n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
  • n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
  • n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
  • n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
  • n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
  • n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
  • n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
  • n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
  • n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
  • n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
  • n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
  • n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
  • v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
  • v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
  • v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
  • v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

tidy

  • adj. (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
  • adj. (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
  • adj. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
  • adj. Arranged neatly and in order.
  • adj. Not messy; neat and controlled.
  • adj. Satisfactory; comfortable.
  • adj. (informal) Generous, considerable.
  • v. To make tidy; to neaten.
  • n. A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
  • n. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of…
  • n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
  • n. The wren.
  • interj. (Wales) Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.

unbend

  • v. To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.
  • v. To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
  • v. (nautical) To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use.
  • v. To cast loose or untie.
  • v. To cease to be bent; to become straight.
  • v. To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like.
  • v. (archaic) to enjoy oneself.

unwind

  • v. (transitive) To wind off; to loose or separate; to untwist; to untwine.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To disentangle.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To relax; to chill out; to rest and relieve of stress.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To undo something.

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