Straighten vs Untie - What's the difference?
straighten | untie |
To cause to become straight.
To become straight.
To put in ; to tidy up.
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To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
(slang) To .
To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
In transitive terms the difference between straighten and untie
is that straighten is to clarify a situation or concept to (an audience) while untie is to free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.In intransitive terms the difference between straighten and untie
is that straighten is to stand up, especially from a sitting position while untie is to become untied or loosed.straighten
English
Verb
(en verb)- to straighten one's affairs, or an account
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Derived terms
* straightener * straighten outSee also
* straitenAnagrams
* English ergative verbsuntie
English
Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
