Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise. / unqualified; thoroughgoing

simple past tense and past participle of scare straight

(transitive, idiomatic) To frighten (someone) to such a degree that a significant improvement in behavior results.

plural of straight-pull

(chiefly attributive) A bolt action firearm in which the bolt is pulled straight back, without the need for turning.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, see, straight. / (figuratively, colloquial) To be unable to think clearly.

(engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the natural logarithm of the ratio of the object's deformed length to its initial length, along some axis.

(engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the of the ratio of the object's deformed length to the its initial length, along some axis.

(archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of straighten

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of straighten