Usually means: Make something aligned or orderly.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word straighten:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. straighten: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. straighten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. straighten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. straighten: Collins English Dictionary
  5. straighten: Vocabulary.com
  6. Straighten, straighten: Wordnik
  7. straighten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. straighten: Wiktionary
  9. straighten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. straighten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. straighten: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. straighten: Dictionary.com
  13. straighten: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Straighten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. straighten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. straighten: Rhymezone
  17. Straighten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. straighten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. straighten: Free Dictionary
  20. straighten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. straighten: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. straighten: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. straighten: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. straighten: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. straighten, straighten: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. straighten: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See straightened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause to become straight.
verb:  (intransitive) To become straight.
verb:  (transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
verb:  (transitive) To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To bribe or corrupt.
verb:  (intransitive) To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To make heterosexual.

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