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Stretch

verb

(past & past part. stretched; pres. part. stretching)

1.

Occupy a large, elongated area. Synonym: stretch along.

2.

Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body. Synonym: extend. "Extend your right arm above your head"

3.

Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length. Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold. "Stretch out that piece of cloth" , "Extend the TV antenna"

4.

Become longer by being stretched and pulled. Antonym: shrink.

5.

Make long or longer by pulling and stretching. Synonym: elongate.

6.

Lie down comfortably. Synonym: stretch out.

7.

Pull in opposite directions.

8.

Extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly. "Stretch my patience" , "Stretch the imagination"

9.

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones. Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load.

10.

Increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance. Synonym: extend. "Extend the casserole with a little rice"

11.

Extend one's body or limbs. Synonym: stretch out.

noun

1.

A large and unbroken expanse or distance. "A stretch of clear water"

2.

The act of physically reaching or thrusting out. Synonyms: reach, reaching.

3.

A straightaway section of a racetrack.

4.

Exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent. Synonym: stretching.

5.

Extension to or beyond the ordinary limit. "By no stretch of the imagination" , "Beyond any stretch of his understanding"

6.

An unbroken period of time during which you do something. Synonym: stint. "He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"

7.

The capacity for being stretched. Synonyms: stretchability, stretchiness.

adjective

1.

Having an elongated seating area.

2.

Easily stretched.

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"Stretch" Quotes from Famous Books

... rapidly through the morass, and came to the farther end of it, where a sluggish burn discharges, and the path for Hermiston accompanies it on the beginning of its downward way. From this corner a wide view was opened to her of the whole stretch of braes upon the other side, still sallow and in places rusty with the winter, with the path marked boldly, here and there by the burn-side a tuft of birches, and—two miles off as the crow flies—from its enclosures and young ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) - The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

... also able to prepare and support the attack on Cingolo Neck and Monte Cristo Ridge. Cingolo Ridge itself, however, was almost beyond their reach. Lyttelton's Division with Wynne's Fusilier Brigade was to stretch out to the eastward and, by a wide turning movement pivoting on the guns and Barton's Brigade, attack the Cingolo Ridge. Dundonald's Cavalry Brigade was to make a far wider detour and climb up the end of the ridge, ...

— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill

... "We have eternity to stretch our legs in," replied the mystic. "It can be an infinity of things. I haven't seen any of them—I've only seen the letter. I look at that, and say it's ...

— The Club of Queer Trades • G. K. Chesterton

... some water found, But in a vessel so profound, That with her neck at utmost stretch, A single drop she could not reach. Then stones she in the pitcher places, Which to the top the water raises; And by this innocent device Her thirst ...

— Aesop, in Rhyme - Old Friends in a New Dress • Marmaduke Park

... and more troops from the Amur districts. They say, too, that the French have crossed the Tonkin frontier. But really accurately we know nothing very much of what is being done. With sixty or seventy thousand soldiery suddenly flung down on the ruined stretch of country between Peking and the sea, everything has been put in the most horrible confusion. You can get nothing, nor hear anything. Telegrams are the only things which are coming through with any regularity, and even these are ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

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