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The act of making things right-angled, whether it's your tie or your life.
means To make something straight, neat, or orderly — physically uncrooked or metaphorically corrected.
from From Old English streht, past participle of streccan (to stretch), with the suffix -en bolted on to mean make-it-so — literally to render stretched-flat.
Hidden stretchShares ancestry with stretch, not just straight.
Crime usageStraighten out can mean reform or threaten.
No middle groundStraight has no comparative — it just is.