'Stretching' definitions:
Definition of 'stretching'
From: WordNet
noun
Act of expanding by lengthening or widening
noun
Exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent [syn: stretch, stretching]
Definition of 'Stretching'
From: GCIDE
- Stretching \Stretch"ing\, a. & n. from Stretch, v. [1913 Webster]
- Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. --Britton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stretching'
From: GCIDE
- Stretch \Stretch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stretched; p. pr. & vb. n. Stretching.] [OE. strecchen, AS. streccan; akin to D. strekken, G. strecken, OHG. strecchen, Sw. str[aum]cka, Dan. straekke; cf. AS. straeck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to E. strong. Cf. Straight.]
- 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. [1913 Webster]
- And stretch forth his neck long and small. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I in conquest stretched mine arm. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly. [1913 Webster]
- The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle. [1913 Webster]
- Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. --Doddridge. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit. [1913 Webster]
- They take up, one day, the most violent and stretched prerogative. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stretching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- breaking point,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- doziness,
- dropsy,
- drowsiness,
- edema,
- elongation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- extreme tension,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flatus,
- gassiness,
- grandiloquence,
- heaviness,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- intumescence,
- languor,
- lengthening,
- lethargy,
- magnification,
- meteorism,
- oscitancy,
- oscitation,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstretching,
- pandiculation,
- prodigality,
- production,
- profuseness,
- prolongation,
- protraction,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- puffing up,
- sensationalism,
- sleepiness,
- snapping point,
- somnolence,
- somnolency,
- strain,
- straining,
- stretch,
- stringing out,
- superlative,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tension,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- windiness,
- yawning