transcription, транскрипция: [ streɪt(ə)n ]
( straightens, straightening, straightened)
1.
If you straighten something, you make it tidy or put it in its proper position.
She sipped her coffee and straightened a picture on the wall.
...tidying, straightening cushions and organising magazines.
VERB : V n , V n
2.
If you are standing in a relaxed or slightly bent position and then you straighten , you make your back or body straight and upright.
The three men straightened and stood waiting.
VERB : V
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Straighten up means the same as straighten .
He straightened up and slipped his hands in his pockets.
PHRASAL VERB : V P
3.
If you straighten something, or it straightens , it becomes straight.
Straighten both legs until they are fully extended...
The road straightened and we were on a plateau.
VERB : V n , V
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Straighten out means the same as straighten .
No one would dream of straightening out the knobbly spire at Empingham Church...
The road twisted its way up the mountain then straightened out for the last two hundred yards.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V P