straighten

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cause to become straight.

   “[S]o / Do these upbear the little world below / Of Education,—Patience, Love, and Hope. / Methinks, I see them group'd in seemly show, / The straiten'd arms upraised, the palms aslope, / And robes that touching as adown they flow, / Distinctly blend, like snow emboss'd in snow.”

2. fiil To become straight.
3. fiil To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.

   “to straighten one's affairs”

4. fiil To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
5. fiil To bribe or corrupt.
6. fiil To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
7. fiil To make heterosexual.

   “It has been said that to survive in this Wasp society, Blacks must straighten their hair, Jews must straighten their noses, and Gays must straighten themselves. But we will no longer tolerate being straightened. It is the doctors and the straight society who must change.”