straightening (up or out)
verb
1
as in shaping up
to change one's behavior or character for the better I hope that rehab will help her straighten up for good Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- shaping up
- improving
- cleaning up one's act
- amending
- behaving
- reforming
- regenerating
- mending
- bettering
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- regressing
- backsliding
2
as in trimming
to make neat a directive for everyone to straighten up their cubicle in preparation for a visit from some corporate VIPs Synonyms & Similar Words
- trimming
- organizing
- redding (up or out)
- arranging
- sprucing (up)
- tidying (up)
- picking up
- neatening
- drawing up
- classifying
- disposing
- ordering
- ranging
- systematizing
- codifying
- marshaling
- arraying
- marshalling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- mixing (up)
- messing (up)
- disturbing
- disrupting
- shuffling
- tumbling
- scrambling
- upsetting
- muddling
- disorganizing
- disarranging
- tousling
- jumbling
- mussing
- disordering
- discomposing
- disheveling
- rumpling
- dishevelling
- disarraying
- freeboards
- freeboot
- freebooted
- freebooter
- freebooters
- freebooting
- freebootings
- freeboots
- freebooty
- freeborn
- freeborner
- freebornest
- freed
- freedman
- freedmen
- freedom
- Freedom Day
- freedom fighter
- freedom of expression
- freedom of navigation
- freedom of religion
- freedom of speech
- freedom of speech/expression
- freedom of the press
- freedom of the seas