straighten
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become straight in direction, form, position, character, conduct, condition, etc. (often followed by up orout ).
restraighten
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a word derived from
straighten.
Example Sentences
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He held up a distorted piece of spine and pelvis, and declared he had a plaster so curative—fifty centimes, ten sous—that it would restraighten the most curved back.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
