straighten up (English, verb)
expansion: straighten up (third-person singular simple present straightens up, present participle straightening up, simple past and past participle straightened up)
Senses:
glosses: To become straight, or straighter.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To steer straight.
tags: ambitransitive
glosses: To sit up straight, to stop hunching.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To deal with; to put in order.
tags: transitive
glosses: To tidy; to tidy up.
tags: transitive
glosses: To clarify.
tags: transitive
glosses: To start living a reformed life; to adopt a more honest and respectable course of behavior.
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
Forms:
form: straightens up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: straightening up
tags: participle
present
form: straightened up
tags: participle
past
form: straightened up
tags: past