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straightens (up or out)verbpresent tense third-person singular 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 amends, mends, reforms, shapes up behaves, regeneratesbetters, improves cleans up one's act backslides, regresses to make neata directive for everyone to straighten up their cubicle in preparation for a visit from some corporate VIPs neatens, picks up, redds (up or out)(chiefly dialect), spruces (up), tidies (up), trims arranges, arrays, classifies, codifies, disposes, draws up, marshals(also marshalls), orders, organizes, ranges, systematizes disarranges, disarrays, discomposes, dishevels, disorders, disorganizes, disrupts, disturbs, jumbles, messes (up), mixes (up), muddles, musses, rumples, scrambles, shuffles, tousles, tumbles, upsets |