[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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. straumcka, 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
see also:
stretched stretching straight 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
stretch stretching course stretcher 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stretching
     adj : extending far; "beyond the misty gray of the rain he saw the
           stretching hutment"; "wide-spreading plains" syn: stretchinga,
            wide-spreading
     n 1: act of expanding by lengthening or widening
     2: exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their
        full extent syn: stretch
see also:
stretchinga wide-spreading stretch 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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