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nounexercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
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nounact of expanding by lengthening or wideningtype of:
Definition that contains stretching
- draw flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- snake a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
- stretch make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- develop superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- tension the action of stretching something tight
- rack a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- extension act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- stretched (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching
- stretcher a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
- elastic capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy