STRAIGHTENING

Verb

straightening

present participle of straighten

Noun

straightening (plural straightenings)

The act of making something straight.

Source: Wiktionary


STRAIGHTEN

Straight"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Straighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Straighting.]

1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

Straight"en, v. t.

Definition: A variant of Straiten. [Obs. or R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

13 February 2025

BREAK

(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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