Straightening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAIGHTENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRAIGHTEN, to make straight
• make or become straight
• stand or sit erect after bending
• (of a vehicle, ship, or aircraft) stop turning and move in a straight line
• make tidy or put in order again
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make straight —usually used with up or out

Words related to STRAIGHTENING

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How to use STRAIGHTENING in a sentence

• At that moment the windings and turnings of the river led them to talk about straightening the channel and, as a matter of course, about the port works.
• Familiarity with a Senator was something new for him, and already he was straightening up and becoming more of a man every moment.
• So I went into the galley and began straightening things out there.
• Straightening his features into a mask, his eyes still spoke his emotion in a kind of stare of resentment at the picture.
• One morning the Prince was at one end of the garden straightening up some wooden soldiers which had toppled over, and Peter was in the wax doll bed dusting the dolls.
• The movement was like that of a man taken at unawares, and straightening himself up to meet an attack.
• We clean out the dugouts and haul away the cowering officers, and already we are straightening and strengthening the German trench.
• He rode on again, his lips straightening into serious lines.
• He was just straightening out again when a peculiar rustling among the horses caught his ears.
• The reverse movement, or straightening of the leg, must be made gently.
• Kelly finished straightening up in the galley and then came forward to sit on the jump seat between the two troopers.
• Wooden combs for straightening warp of blanket in weaving.
• She rose, straightening herself slowly, dragging herself upward from the table with both hands.
• He did not attempt to rise by straightening up, as most persons would have done.
• Joe went down a couple of feet, bending at the knees, and caught this fellow around the hips with both hands, straightening and lifting him over his head.
• You see one of them from time to time straightening his loins, and wiping his face with the back of his hand.
• The single straightening of his arm sent Miller backward over a bench to the floor with a crashing sound.
• Straightening from her work, she stood for a moment looking intently at him.
• Straightening out his craft, he headed it directly toward that of his enemy.
• With his white, aristocratic hands he played with the louis, bending and straightening them again, as if they were made of pewter.
• In straightening out his life and affairs he displayed the energy of a steam-boiler under high pressure and a colossal cheerfulness.
• I smiled to find myself adjusting my scarf and straightening my collar as I beheld my neighbors for the first time.
• Pickering,” said Larry, straightening up and taking the pipe from his mouth, “I’m Mr.
• At last, however, the mill men acquired the art of straightening the rail while it cooled.
• He has effected the greatest improvements in the capital, by enlarging and straightening the streets, and by erecting various public edifices of the highest utility and ornament.
• Straightening its dishevelled leaves with his big, slow fingers, he stood a few feet from the family entrance of the Shandon Bells Cafe.
• The editor had written, only a short time before, of the excellent service Miss Anthony had rendered in straightening out the accounts.
• Monte was stumbling, saving himself from falling, straightening again, lifting his gun.
• The appearance which these shadows assume determines the question whether the barrel is straight or not, and if not, where it requires straightening.

Similar words containing STRAIGHTEN without suffix ing

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