straighten out

straighten out

vb (adverb)

1. to make or become less complicated or confused the situation will straighten out

2. US and Canadian to reform or become reformed

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	straighten out - settle or put right; "we need to iron out our disagreements" iron out, put right ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better - to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
	2.	straighten out - extricate from entanglement; "Can you disentangle the cord?" unsnarl, disentangle order - bring order to or into; "Order these files" tease apart, loosen, tease - disentangle and raise the fibers of; "tease wool" ravel, ravel out, unravel - disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?"
	3.	straighten out - change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light" see the light, reform ameliorate, improve, meliorate, better - get better; "The weather improved toward evening" reform, regenerate, reclaim, rectify - bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
	4.	straighten out - make straight straighten alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" untwist - cause to become untwisted unbend - free from flexure; "unbend a bow" extend - open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?" channelise, channelize - cause to form a channel; "channelize a stream" untwine - undo what has been twined together; "untwine the strings" unweave - undo strands that have been woven together comb - straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"
	5.	straighten out - make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, shed light on, sort out, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, enlighten, clear up, clear clarify, clear up, elucidate - make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"
	6.	straighten out - put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" clean up, neaten, square away, tidy, tidy up, straighten make up, make - put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room" order - bring order to or into; "Order these files" clean house, houseclean, clean - clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week"

Translations

? straighten out

vt sep

(= make straight) legs etc → gerade machen; road → begradigen; wire → gerade biegen; rope → gerade ziehen; hair → glätten

(= put right) problem, situation → klären; one’s ideas → ordnen; one’s affairs, the economy → in Ordnung bringen; misunderstanding → (auf)klären; person (by discipline) → auf die richtige Bahn bringen; to straighten oneself out → ins richtige Gleis kommen; the problem will soon straighten itself out → das Problem wird sich bald von selbst erledigen; to straighten things out → die Sache geradebiegen or in Ordnung bringen; (= clarify) → Klarheit in die Sache bringen

vi (road etc) → gerade werden; (hair) → glatt werden