straighten (up)

verb

Definition of straighten (up)next
as in to tidy (up)

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  1. make up
  2. draw up
  3. lay out
  4. groom
Verb
  • Yet all the growing mounds of evidence and ever more refined expertise can’t make up for a stubborn disjunction separating design, courtesy, and compliance.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Nov. 2024
  • A week after the 2024 general election wrapped up, more than half of voters haven’t made up their minds about the likely candidates for 2026 yet, UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies poll found.
    Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of make up
Verb
  • His allies around Washington have drawn up a detailed agenda, one that Harris and her allies have successfully weaponized to the point that some Project 2025’s authors have already been blackballed from any access to Trump.
    Philip Elliott / Houston, TIME, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The suits worn by its SpaceX Dragon astronauts were originally drawn up with the help of Jose Fernandezm, who is a Hollywood costume designer and thought the suits were meant for a film wardrobe.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of draw up
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  • Venu’s three backers, which collectively have spent more than $50 million preparing Venu to go live, then filed an appeal to the Second Circuit, laying out their objections to the ruling in a brief filed in September.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In the video, Chu lays out food for Sage, but Sasha quickly hears the sound of the food and waddles into the kitchen.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of lay out
Verb
  • But the court said that prosecutors improperly provided the grand jury with a definition of grooming without expert testimony, and faulted them for withholding from the grand jury inconsistent statements made by one of his accusers.
    CBS News, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Despite their tendency to reduce social interactions with others when sick, in vampire bats, sick mothers will continue to groom their offspring and vice versa, probably because mother-daughter relationships are extra important.
    Sebastian Stockmaier, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of groom
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“Straighten (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straighten%20%28up%29. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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