Straighten Out

Definition: Straighten Out

Straighten Out

Verb

1. Settle or put right; of difficulties or problems.

2. Extricate from entanglement; "Can you disentangle the cord?".

3. Change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light".

4. Make straight.

5. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear: "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault".

6. Put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Straighten Out

Compromise

Verb: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms; (contract); submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed.

Crosswords: Straighten Out

Gotta straighten out that closet one of these days. (Heavenly Days; writing credit: Howard Estabrook)

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Books

• Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve [ABRIDGED] (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

sqaroj (clarify, dissolve, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, explain, gloss, illuminate, illustrate, sharpen, straighten), shpjegoj (account for, clarify, construe, define, elucidate, explain, expound, interpret, justify, make understand, straighten, take to pieces, tell, unriddle). (various references)

Czech

srovnat (dress, flatten, parallel, patch up, straighten). (various references)

Finnish

selvittää raha-asiat (straighten out one's affairs). (various references)

French

défausser (straighten). (various references)

German

sich fangen (get caught, get trapped, level off, level out, recover oneself, steady oneself), zurechtrücken (adjust, manipulate, put straight, straighten up), richten (address, aim, bend straight, direct, execute, fit, fix, focus, get ready, guide, judge, level, manage, orientate, pass judgment, play, point, prepare, present, put to death, remodel, send, set, sight, smarten up, steer, suit, to judge (by), train, turn), ordnen (arrange, collocate, fix up, Marshal, order, organize, put in order, sort out, tabulate, to arrange, to tabulate), gerademachen, geradebiegen (put straight, sort out, unbend), entschärfen (de-activate, defuse, neutralize, tone down). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפלס (level, overrun). (various references)

Hungarian

egyenesbe hoz (put things straight, to align, to straighten out, to straighten up). (various references)

Italian

raddrizzare (correct, right, straighten, straighten oneself up, unbend). (various references)

Pig Latin

aightenstray outay

Portuguese

planejar (arrange, brood, cogitate, compass, concert, concoct, conspire, contrive, count, design, frame, intend, lay, map, meditate, plan, program, programme, project, propone, propose, purpose, schedule, scheme, trace, work out), pôr em ordem (clean up, order, settle, sort, straighten, trim), harmonizar (accommodate, accord, adjust, agree, arrange, atone, attune, blend, chime, compose, compromise, conciliate, harmonize, proportion, reconcile, salve, suit), dar instruções (direct), chegar a acordo (arrange), adaptar (acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, attemper, attune, calculate, fashion, figure out, fit out, naturalize, place, proportion, put right, put up, suit, tune). (various references)

Russian 

разогнуть, приводить в порядок (adjust, arrange, brush up, do up, fix, order, put in order, put into shape, rearrange, set in order, square up, straighten, tidy up, trim). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmrsiti (disembroil, disentangle, sort out, tease, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle), popraviti (amend, chasten, correct, doctor, emend, fix, improve, mend, overhaul, recline, recondition, redress, remedy, repair), doterati (adjust, drive, furbish, lick into shape, nidge, polish, regulate, smarten, spruce, touch up). (various references)

Spanish

poner derecho (straighten), enderezar (bend straight, bump, erect, put up, right, straighten, unbend). (various references)

Swedish

ordna upp (fix, order, patch up). (various references)

Turkish

yoluna koymak (arrange, clean up, regulate, slot, straighten, tune), doğrusunu açıklamak (straighten), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), şüphesini gidermek (disarm, straighten smb. out). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцnelmek. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: outstarting.

-3 letters: anorthites, guttations, housetrain, naughtiest, outhearing, outstaring, outstating, shattering, shuttering, straighten, stuttering, throatiest.

-4 letters: anorthite, antitrust, attesting, authoring, authorise, earthnuts, gauntries, gestation, gnathites, gnattiest, grottiest, groutiest, gustation, guttation, hungriest, ingathers, naughtier, northeast, orangiest, outeating, outranges, outrating, rehousing, restating, retasting, righteous, senhorita, shogunate, signature, stationer, strutting, tattering, tetragons, theurgist, thionates, thioureas, thorniest, threating.