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put straight

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Rooms are still swept and dusted, beds are made, and chairs and tables put straight.

One screw is put slanting from the top of the gun-stock; the other is put straight from the bottom.

The title-page and the half-title, when found to be out of square, should nearly always be put straight.

You put straight for the Staked Plains, an' if you are lively enough to ketch 'em anywhar, you'll ketch 'em thar.

“Our Indian affairs,” she wrote, “are getting as drunk as they can be”; she was resolved to have them put straight.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to put one straight, such as: clarify, cut down, facilitate, reduce, shorten, and streamline.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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