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Definition of Straighten
Straighten

To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.

A variant of Straiten.

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Straighten Quotations

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Billy Graham

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
Ross Perot

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
Jerry Falwell

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
Debbie Harry

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.
Anatoly Karpov

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Bill Lee

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
Warren G. Harding

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.
Kieran Culkin

Straighten Translations

straighten in German is gerade machen, gerade werden


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