straighten
Example Sentences
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Go, I say, to her, who washed the wounds, and straighted the corpse, and gave to the slain man the outward show of one parted in time and in the course of nature.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
A servant of his left a barn where he slept, ‘because nightly he had seen a dead corps in his winding sheet, straighted beside him’.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
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Spelling Practice 3, Unit 4
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