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Straighten out   /strˈeɪtən aʊt/   Listen
Straighten out

verb
1.
Settle or put right.  Synonyms: iron out, put right.
2.
Extricate from entanglement.  Synonyms: disentangle, unsnarl.
3.
Change for the better.  Synonyms: reform, see the light.  "The habitual cheater finally saw the light"
4.
Make straight.  Synonym: straighten.
5.
Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.  Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out.  "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
6.
Put (things or places) in order.  Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, tidy, tidy up.





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"Straighten out" Quotes from Famous Books



... anything out of the way. He never noticed Aunt Olivia's fluttering nervousness at all. Peggy and I laughed more than was good for us those days. It was so funny to see Aunt Olivia hovering anxiously around, picking up flower stems, and smoothing out tidies, and generally following him about to straighten out things. Once she even got a wing and dustpan and swept the cigar ashes under ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
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... passage, but also by the authority of Augustine, and they sweat. Of Augustine they say that his language is hyperbolical, as Basil writes of one who in refuting the other side had gone too far, that he did like the farmers; they when trying to straighten out crooked branches bend them a little too far on the other side; and so Augustine, in beating back the Pelagians, is asserted to have spoken more severely against free will in the defense of grace than the merits ...
— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther
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... groves he could see the balcony of the house, and on it a woman unfolding shining gowns of delicate colors. She was shaking the prima donna's skirts to straighten out the wrinkles and the folds caused by the packing ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
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... had intentionally kept in the rear, to straighten out any little hitch or to encourage a man with a broken sledge, and to see that everything was in good marching order. Now I took my proper place in the lead. Though I held myself in check, I felt the ...
— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary
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... front. The Royal Highlanders kept their original position. Yet there was every indication of a rout. The roads were clogged by the night supply trains going forward and the rush of men trying to escape from the deadly gas. The staff officers found it impossible to straighten out the tangle, and the various regiments had to act almost as independent bodies. It was not until early the following morning, April 23, 1915, that the first reenforcements of British soldiers appeared to fill the breach. These men, for the most part, were from the Twenty-eighth Division, and ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
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