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nounexercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
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"The park stretched beneath the train line"verboccupy a large, elongated area
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verbcorrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
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"To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass"verblie down comfortably
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nounthe act of physically reaching or thrusting out
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"stretch out that piece of cloth"verbextend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
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"stretch the soup by adding some more cream"verbincrease in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
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"stretch the fabric"verbmake long or longer by pulling and stretching
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"there were stretches of boredom" "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"nounan unbroken period of time during which you do something
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nounthe capacity for being stretched
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"Let's stretch for a minute--we've been sitting here for over 3 hours"verbextend one's body or limbs
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verbextend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
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"a stretch of highway" "a stretch of clear water"nouna large and unbroken expanse or distancetype of:
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nouna straightaway section of a racetracktype of:part of:
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"The fabric stretches"verbbecome longer by being stretched and pulledOpposite:type of:
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"stretch hosiery"adjectiveeasily stretched
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"stretch my patience" "stretch the imagination"verbextend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
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"running at full stretch" "by no stretch of the imagination" "beyond any stretch of his understanding"nounextension to or beyond the ordinary limittype of:
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"a stretch limousine"adjectivehaving an elongated seating area
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"During the Inquisition, the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack"verbpull in opposite directions
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