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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

A variant of Straiten. [Obs. or R.]

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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