straighten something up

Examples of straightened

straightened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Wild rivers were forced into straightened riverbeds, swamps were drained, and water levels were carefully monitored throughout the country.
The number of mermithid worms, if any, inside each amphipod was determined, and each worm was straightened without stretching and measured to the nearest mm.
Coming from the background of accounting, he immediately straightened out the company's bookkeeping and implemented a new accounting system.
They help him, get straightened out, put the pears back, in the basket, straighten out his bicycle, and so forth.
Hatching occurred when the parasitoid embryo straightened, causing the chorion to split.
Indeed, while the sisters watched, the image of her face returned gradually, and the nose straightened out, until it was returned to its original state.
The connective tissues surrounding oviducts were trimmed with scissors and the oviducts were straightened, then opened longitudinally using the scissors.
The coil was straightened by inserting a mandril, with loops then being formed by withdrawal of the mandril.
The walls were straightened, and benches were placed in each room.
Each of them has black eyeliner providing lift at the edge of the eyes and each wears the same coral lipstick to set off the same straightened and whitened teeth.
Nets where cuts are not activated are called pure (the diagrammatical representation of activated cuts is the same as that for straightened out (that is, non-activated) cuts).
Once the position is straightened out, the giveaway will come.
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