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straightening (up or out)verbpresent participle of straighten (up or out) to change one's behavior or character for the betterI hope that rehab will help her straighten up for good amending, mending, reforming, shaping up behaving, regeneratingbettering, improving cleaning up one's act backsliding, regressing to make neata directive for everyone to straighten up their cubicle in preparation for a visit from some corporate VIPs neatening, picking up, redding (up or out)(chiefly dialect), sprucing (up), tidying (up), trimming arranging, arraying, classifying, codifying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling(or marshalling), ordering, organizing, ranging, systematizing disarranging, disarraying, discomposing, disheveling(or dishevelling), disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbing, jumbling, messing (up), mixing (up), muddling, mussing, rumpling, scrambling, shuffling, tousling, tumbling, upsetting |