Word Meanings - STRAIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose

Additional info about word: STRAIGHTEN

1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRAIGHTEN)

• Rectify
• Straighten
• correct
• a need
• better
• adjust
• emend
• reform
• redress
• regulate
• rearrange
• remodel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STRAIGHTEN)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to STRAIGHTEN)

• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• REDRESS
  1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker. 2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression;
• CORRECTIBLE; CORRECTABLE
  Capable of being corrected.
• EMENDATION
  1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor. 2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better
• CORRECTNESS
  The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
• REDRESSIBLE
  Such as may be redressed.
• REFORMATORY
  An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
• EMENDER
  One who emends.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• TRANSPARENCE
  The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.
• SPARE
  1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.