Usually means: Making something aligned, orderly, flat.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word straightening:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. straightening: Merriam-Webster
  2. straightening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. straightening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Straightening, straightening: Wordnik
  5. straightening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. straightening: Wiktionary
  7. straightening: Dictionary.com
  8. straightening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. straightening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. straightening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. straightening: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. straightening: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (straightening)

▸ noun:  The act of making something straight.

Similar:
straighten out, neaten, tidy up, clean up, roll out, rise, unbend, tidy, square away, smoothing, more...

Opposite:
bending, curving, flexing, contorting, warping

Types:
rebonding, keratin, Japanese, digital, chemical, more...

Phrases:
straightening up, straightening out, Hair straightening, Brazilian hair straightening, needing straightening up, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, cold, forcible, hair, slight, gradual, complete, subsequent, little, final, further

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     black,     beige, more...



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Similar:
straighten out, neaten, tidy up, clean up, roll out, rise, unbend, tidy, square away, smoothing, more...

Opposite:
bending, curving, flexing, contorting, warping

Types:
rebonding, keratin, Japanese, digital, chemical, more...

Phrases:
straightening up, straightening out, Hair straightening, Brazilian hair straightening, needing straightening up, for curling or straightening hair, straightening appliance, straightening their face, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, cold, forcible, hair, slight, gradual, complete, subsequent, little, final, further

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     black,     beige, more...



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