straighten out

Definition

To make straight.

Example Sentences

• "Straighten out your necktie and comb your hair."
• ""Then bring them to me," she said. And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, "Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?""
• "In recent times, the track has been straightened out and a new, somewhat characterless, station has been built just to the east."