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Stretching

noun

1.

Act of expanding by lengthening or widening.

2.

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

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.

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"Stretching" Quotes from Famous Books

... sigh of relief that she had gone out of his life, but he could not. It was not so easy to shake off the shadow of his responsibility. He followed her in imagination on her downward path till he saw her stretching out her hands in pitiful need to casual acquaintances—alone and without hope; still petite, still dainty in spite of all, still with ...

— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... stimulating explorers and improving the art of navigation. But none of the changes of outlook in the past have approached in their extent and significance those which have been in progress during the last fifty years, the new history of man and his surroundings, stretching back through hitherto unthought-of ages, the substitution of an illimitable vista of ever changing worlds for the imagined perfection of the ordered heavens, and above all the intrusion of science into the most intimate regions of ourselves. The effects of such changes often come, ...

— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas

... stream which made its way between them. They were nowhere less than two hundred feet high; above that, moulded in all manner of heights and hollows; sometimes reaching up abruptly to twelve or fourteen hundred feet, and sometimes stretching away in long gorges and gentle declivities, — hills grouping behind hills. In Summer all these were a mass of living green, that the eye could hardly arrange; under Spring's delicate marshalling ...

— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... that the feeble leaves, the first shoots, cannot stand or support themselves; they are helpless as infants. But they have come to the "light of day," "have entered into life," and they will grow, become strong and stand, stretching ever higher into the light. The native stanzas portray the progressive movements of the corn from feeble helplessness into the power of life. The action of the dancers should convey this ...

— Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs • Alice C. Fletcher

... would speak louder than ordinary, are they satisfied with working their jaws, sides, or tongue, or stretching the common organs of speech and utterance? the whole body and every muscle is at full stretch, if I may be allowed the expression, every nerve is exerted to assist their voice. I have actually seen the knees of Marcus Antonius touch the ground when he was speaking with vehemence for himself, ...

— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

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