0 present participle of straighten --
1 to become straight or to make something become straight: --
2 to make something level: --
3 to make something tidy: --
But some road straightening and widening has to be done.
Straightening the line, not electrification, may be the main issue here.
The situation was that after the war we had to start straightening things out.
I know of no policy of widening and straightening all by-roads.
It is time that a little straightening out was done by at least one lawyer.
Would it not be much better to spend the money, instead of on straightening roads, in giving decent accommodation to working people?
Those were days when the country was straightening itself out after a great war, as it is doing now.
The matter needs straightening out, and it is about time that something was done to put them on a par.
