stretch /strech/

1. To extend (in space or time)
2. To draw out
3. To expand, make longer or wider by tension
4. To spread out
5. To reach out
6. To exaggerate, strain, or carry further than is right
7. To lay at full length
8. To lay out
9. To place so as to reach from point to point or across a space
10. To hang by the neck (slang)

1. To be drawn out
2. To reach
3. To extend (with over, across, etc)
4. To be sufficient
5. To be extensible without breaking
6. To straighten and extend fully one's body and limbs
7. To exaggerate
8. To go swiftly

1. The act of stretching
2. The state of being stretched
3. Reach
4. Extension
5. Utmost extent
6. Strain
7. Undue straining
8. Exaggeration
9. A demanding task
10. Extensibility
11. A single spell
12. A continuous journey
13. An area, expanse
14. A straight part of a course
15. A term of imprisonment (slang)
16. A stretch limo (slang)
17. A pitching stance that is more upright than the wind-up (qv under wind²), used in order to prevent a runner from stealing a base (baseball)

Capable of being stretched

stretched adjective

stretchˈer noun

1. A person who stretches
2. Anything used for stretching eg gloves, hats, etc
3. A frame for stretching a painter's canvas
4. A frame for carrying the sick or wounded
5. A rower's footboard
6. A crossbar or horizontal member
7. A brick, stone, sod, sandbag, etc laid horizontally with others in the forming of a wall
8. An exaggeration or lie (informal)

1. To transport (a sick or injured person) by stretcher
2. (with off) to carry (esp an injured player) from the field of play on a stretcher

stretchˈless adjective

No longer liable to stretch

stretchˈy adjective

Able, apt, or inclined to stretch

stretchˈer-bearer noun

A person who carries injured from the field

stretchˈer-bond or stretchˈing-bond noun

A method of building with stretchers only, the joints of one course falling between those above and below

stretching course noun

A brick course entirely of stretchers

stretching frame noun

1. A machine for stretching cotton rovings
2. A frame on which starched fabrics are dried

stretching iron noun

A currier's tool for dressing leather

stretch limo noun (informal; in full stretch limousine)

A luxurious, custom-made limousine that has been lengthened to provide extra seating, etc

stretch marks plural noun

Marks left on the skin where it has been stretched, esp after pregnancy

at a stretch

1. Continuously, without interruption
2. With difficulty

stretch a point

To go further, esp in concession, than the strict rule allows

stretch one's legs

To take a walk, esp for exercise

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