straighten up
/S T R EY1 T AH0 N AH1 P/verb
- 1
(intransitive) To sit up straight, to stop hunching.
- 2
(intransitive) To become straight, or straighter.
- 3
(transitive) To tidy; to tidy up.
- 4
(transitive) To deal with; to put in order.
- 5
(transitive) To clarify.
- 6
(ambitransitive) To steer straight.
- 7
(intransitive, idiomatic) To start living a reformed life; to adopt a more honest and respectable course of behavior.
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