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