stretched
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Definitions ofstretched
- To lengthen by pulling.
Example: "I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke."
- To lengthen when pulled.
Example: "The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point."
- To pull tight.
Example: "First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum."
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
Example: "I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days."
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
Example: "To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably."
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
Example: "The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble."
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
Example: "Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack."
- To extend to a limit point
Example: "His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns."
- To increase.
- To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
Example: "a man apt to stretch in his report of facts"
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
Example: "The ship stretched to the eastward."
- To execute by hanging.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
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