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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.

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  • 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.
  • INCORRUPTION
    The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.

 

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