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English

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Verb

stretching


Category:English present participles

fi:stretching ta:stretching te:stretching vi:stretching zh:stretching

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stretch \Stretch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stretched; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stretching.] [OE. strecchen, AS. streccan; akin to D.
strekken, G. strecken, OHG. strecchen, Sw. str[aum]cka, Dan.
straekke; cf. AS. straeck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack
straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to E. strong. Cf.
Straight.]
1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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And stretch forth his neck long and small.
--Chaucer.
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I in conquest stretched mine arm. --Shak.
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2. To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a
straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
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3. To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as,
to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
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4. To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
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The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain.
--Shak.
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5. To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to
stretch a tendon or muscle.
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Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. --Doddridge.
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6. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the
truth; to stretch one's credit.
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They take up, one day, the most violent and
stretched prerogative. --Burke.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stretching \Stretch"ing\,
a. & n. from Stretch, v.
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Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of
stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. --Britton.
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WordNet stretching
adj : extending far; "beyond the misty gray of the rain he saw the
stretching hutment"; "wide-spreading plains" [syn: stretching(a),
wide-spreading]
n 1: act of expanding by lengthening or widening
2: exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their
full extent [syn: stretch]
Moby Dictionary
aggrandizement , amplification , ballyhoo , big talk , bloat ,
bloatedness , bloating , blowing up , breaking point , burlesque ,
caricature , diastole , dilatation , dilation , distension , doziness ,
dropsy , drowsiness , edema , elongation , enhancement , enlargement ,
exaggerating , exaggeration , excess , exorbitance , expansion ,
extension , extravagance , extreme , extreme tension , flatulence ,
flatulency , flatus , gassiness , grandiloquence , heaviness ,
heightening , huckstering , hyperbole , hyperbolism , inflation ,
inordinacy , intumescence , languor , lengthening , lethargy ,
magnification , meteorism , oscitancy , oscitation , overdistension ,
overdrawing , overemphasis , overestimation , overexpansion ,
overextension , overkill , overstatement , overstrain , overstraining ,
overstretching , pandiculation , prodigality , production ,
profuseness , prolongation , protraction , puff , puffery , puffiness ,
puffing , puffing up , sensationalism , sleepiness , snapping point ,
somnolence , somnolency , strain , straining , stretch , stringing out ,
superlative , swell , swellage , swelling , swollenness , tall talk ,
tension , touting , travesty , tumefaction , tumescence , tumidity ,
tumidness , turgescence , turgidity , turgidness , tympanism , tympany ,
windiness , yawning


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