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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.

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

... stretching out ahead of her in a series of exciting events. At the breakfast table her father told her that Hilda would stay on General Drake's case, and that she had better have Emily Bridges ...

— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey

... of which the Buchers, like all German families, were extremely fond. A rendezvous would be made for dinner, for instance, at some attractive spot up the Elbe. It would be a walking trip from Loschwitz along the winding banks or up on a higher path stretching from one smooth, low-lying hilltop to another. Everywhere the invigorating odor of pine lay in the air. The company assembled by twos or singly at their convenience during the late afternoon. Generally the Herr would be last. And when he was spied ...

— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

... too grave a one for the surgeons of the field hospital. In after years, that ambulance journey into Kroonstad seemed branded upon Weldon's memory: the baking heat of the February sun, the interminable miles of dusty road stretching away between other interminable miles of grassy veldt, scarred and seamed here and there with ridges of naked rock. And at last the ambulance had jogged into Kroonstad, only to find that no help lay in the hospital ...

— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller

... possession of it. Cabot's voyages had created little impression, for he had returned from them empty-handed; instead of finding the passage to the Indies which he sought, he had discovered nothing but an inconvenient and apparently worthless barrier stretching across the way, and for many years the great continent was regarded only in that light, and such explorations as were made were with the one object of getting through it or around it. In fact, as late as 1787, opinion in Europe was divided as to ...

— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson

... behind. The object of his journey, Musardu, the chief city of the Western Mandingoes, was at length reached, just on the edge of the primeval forest. Beyond lies a vast plateau covered with tall grass, showing here and there a solitary palm, and stretching away to the head waters of the Niger. The climate is wholesome, the air bracing, and ...

— History of Liberia - Johns Hopkins University Studies In Historical And Political Science • J.H.T. McPherson

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