Stretch Out

Definition: Stretch Out

Stretch Out

Verb

1. Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna".

2. Lie down comfortably; "To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass".

3. Extend out and forward, as of a limb; "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand".

4. Extend one's body or limbs; "Let's stretch for a minute--we've been sitting here for over 3 hours".

5. Of the neck; so as to see better.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Stretch Out

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Length

Verb: be long; Adjective: stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along."

Crosswords: Stretch Out

Stretch out your arms (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Now the miles stretch out behind me loves that I have lost (The Search is Over; performing artist: Survivor)

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Books

• Leader's Guide to Stretch Out Your Hand: Exploring Healing Prayer (reference)

• Stretch Out (reference)

• Stretch out my golden wing (reference)

• Stretch Out Your Hand: Exploring Healing Prayer (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stretch Out (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Production. Magnesium. Huge clarifier rakes stretch out like giant arms at Basic Magnesium's plant in the southern Nevada desert. One of the ore storage silos, eighty-four feet high, is in the distance. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He felt that the police was somewhere near by in ambush, awaiting the signal agreed upon, and all ready to stretch out its arm.

Yet a voice within him spoke above the noise of his dancing heart, asking him would he take her gift to which he had only to stretch out his hand.

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Trade

Guatemala

Under its Financial Modernization Program (FMP) with the Inter-American Development Bank, the government is attempting to make credit more widely available, stretch out the term of most lending, and make interest rates more competitive. (references)

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Expressions using "stretch out": stretch out one's arms ♦ stretch out one's hand ♦ stretch out to reach smth.. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, floor, hew, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, run down, shoot down, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap). (various references)

Chinese 

伸開 (to stretch out). (various references)

Czech

roztáhnout (distend, extend, spread, unfold), rozpřáhnout (spread), natáhnout se. (various references)

Finnish

venyä (be elastic, become protracted, stretch), ojentaa (extend, hand, hold out, pass, reach, rebuke, strech out). (various references)

French

s'allonger (stride), déchargement retardé, étendre (strech out). (various references)

German

sich strecken (drag on, have a stretch, shoot up, stretch, uncurl oneself), sich hinlegen (lie down, to lie down), sich ausbreiten (break forth, extend, propagate, sprawl, spread, spread oneself out, spread out, stretch, unfold, unroll), vorstrecken (advance, hold out, put out, stretch forward, thrust out), ausstrecken (elongation, extend, hold out, outstretch, put out, stick out, strech out, thrust out, to outstretch, to reach out, to stretch), ausbreiten (display, extend, lay out, outspread, set out, splay, spread, spread out, strech out, stretch, to splay, to spread, to spread (out), unfold, unfurl, unroll), aufspannen (put on, put up, spread out, stretch, to stretch), aalen. (various references)

Greek 

ξαπλώνομαι (sprawl). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשטוח (scatter, spread), לשטח (flatten, spread), לפרוש (cast a net, expand, extend, spread, unfurl), לרבוץ (couch, lie). (various references)

Hungarian

terít (hand out, to extend, to lay down one's hand, to lay the table, to set the table, to spread out, to stretch out), szétterít (to lay low, to spread, to spread out, to stretch out). (various references)

Italian

sporgere (jut, jut out, lean, lean out, prefer, protrude, put out, register, shoot out, stick out, thrust), protendere (hold out, lean forward), allungarsi (elongate, extend, lengthen, reach, stretch), allungare (elongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, put out, reach, renew, shoot out, slip, stick out, stretch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

連なる (to extend, to stand in a row, to stretch out), 洗い張り (lay or stretch out to dry), 横たわる (to lie down, to stretch out), 伸び広がる (to stretch out), 伸べ広�'る (to stretch out), 差す (to raise stretch out hands, to raise umbrella). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のびひろがる (to stretch out), のべひろ�'る (to stretch out), つらなる (to extend, to stand in a row, to stretch out), あらいはり (lay or stretch out to dry), よ�"たわる (to lie down, to stretch out). (various references)

Manx

sheeyney magh (attenuate, attenuation, distend, distention, expand, expansion, extend, fork out, hold out, lengthen, pass round, prolong, protract, protraction, push out, put out, reach, unfold, unfold as landscape), sheeyney (dilation, elongate, extension, give, hand, increase, lengthen, lengthening, marry, pass, produce, production, prolongation, prostrate, prostration, range, rick, spin out, sprain, spraining, spread, strain, stretch, stretching, tension, uncoil), lhiuraghey (elongate, extension, prolongation, protract, stretching). (various references)

Pig Latin

etchstray outay

Portuguese

alongar (elongate, extend, lengthen, prolong). (various references)

Romanian

mãrirea normelor de lucru. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pružiti (hand, lend, offer, pass), prućiti se, ispružiti (crane, extend, put out, reach, reach out, spread out). (various references)

Spanish

extenderse (be, expand, extend, grow, last, lie, range, reach, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, travel, unfold), extender (carry, draw, draw up, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hold out, issue, lay, lay down, lay out, make bigger, make out, obtrude, open, open out, open up, overblow, prolong, put forth, put out, renew, spread, spread out, stretch, string out, unfold, unfurl, widen, write out), esforzarse al máximo (stretch), echarse (drop, have, lay down, lie, lie down, slacken, throw, throw back, throw down, throw oneself). (various references)

Swedish

sticka fram (jut, jut out, overhang, protrude). (various references)

Turkish

uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, turn to, wiredraw), germek (bag, distend, draw, hang on, lift, rack, span, sprawl out, stay, strain, stretch, string, tauten, tense, tighten, tighten up), esnetmek (bend, cause to yawn, flex, stretch, supple), arayı açmak (stretch). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьяnmek (oblong, recline), sьяndьrmek (extend, prolong), uzatmak (extend). (various references)

Ukrainian

розтягуватися (dilate, elongate, spread out, stretch, tail away, tail off, yield), простягати (hold out, outstretch, put out, spread). (various references)

contendam, contendas, contendat, contende, contendebant, contendebat, contendentes, contendere, contenderit, contendet, contendi, contendimus, contendis, contendit, contendite, contenditis, contenta, contenti, contentus, distringam, distringet, exporrigens, extendam, extendant, extendas, extendat, extende, extendebantur, extendebat, extendens, extendent, extendente, extendentes, extendentium, extendentque, extenderat, extendere, extenderent, extenderet, extenderim, extenderit, extenderitis, extenderunt, extendes, extendet, extendetur, extendi, extendisse, extendisset, extendisti, extendit, extenditque, extenditur, extenta, extentae, extenti, extento, extentum, extentumque, extentus, oppansum, porrecta, porrectus, porrexit, porrige, porrigebat, porrigebatur, porrigeret, porriges, porriget, praetende, produc, producam, producant, producas, producat, producatque, producendi, producens, producere, produceret, producet, producetur, producis, producit, producite, producturus, producunt, produxerant, produxeris, produxerit, produxi, produxit, produxitque, protendentem, protendentes, protendit, superextendam, superextendimus. (various references)

astreccan. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outstretch.

-2 letters: couthest, scouther, shortcut, touchers.

-3 letters: chouser, cotters, couters, couther, curtest, cutters, hectors, hottest, outsert, retouch, rochets, rotches, rouches, scouter, scutter, shouter, shutter, souther, stouter, stretch, stretto, stutter, tochers, torches, totters, toucher, touches, touters, troches.

-4 letters: cerous, cherts, chores, chorus, chotts, chouse, chutes, corset, cosher, coster, cotter, course, courts, couter, couths, crouse, cruets, cruset.

+2 letters: butterscotch, outstretched, outstretches.

+3 letters: counterthrust, outstretching.

+4 letters: authenticators, butterscotches, counterthreats, counterthrusts.

+5 letters: technostructure.