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stretching 音标拼音: [str'ɛtʃɪŋ] 展锻; 延伸 展锻; 延伸 stretching 伸展 stretching n 1: act of expanding by lengthening or widening 2: exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent [synonym: {stretch}, {stretching}] 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] 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] 102 Moby Thesaurus words for "stretching":
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
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