straighten out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
settle or put right
we need to iron out our disagreements
Types & categories
- improve hypernym
Sense 2 verb
extricate from entanglement
Can you disentangle the cord?
Types & categories
- order hypernym
- tease apart hyponym
- ravel hyponym
Related & opposite
- mat antonym
- unsnarling derivation
Sense 3 verb
change for the better
The lazy student promised to reform
Types & categories
- improve hypernym
Related & opposite
- reclamation derivation
- reform derivation
- reformatory derivation
- reform verb group
Sense 4 verb
make straight
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- straightener derivation
Sense 5 verb
make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Could you clarify these remarks?
Types & categories
- clear up hypernym
Related & opposite
- clearness derivation
- clarification derivation
- elucidation derivation
- lucidity derivation
- clarifying derivation
Sense 6 verb
put (things or places) in order
Tidy up your room!
Types & categories
- order hypernym
- make up hyponym
- houseclean hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | improve |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | mat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsnarling |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | order |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tease apart |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ravel |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reclamation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reform |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reformatory |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | reform |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | improve |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | straightener |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | untwist |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | unbend |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | extend |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | channelize |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | untwine |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | unweave |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | comb |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | clearness |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarification |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | elucidation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | lucidity |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarifying |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | clear up |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | order |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | make up |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | houseclean |