stretched 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of stretchednext
as in enlarged

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stretched

2 of 2

verb

past tense of stretch
1
as in exaggerated
to add to the interest of by including made-up details it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version

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2
as in pulled
to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure I stretched a back muscle, and the pain is killing me

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as in lengthened
to make longer the time it would take to fix the car got stretched from three hours to two days when the part we needed had to be ordered

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4
as in tried
to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress your whining is stretching my patience to the limit

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as in tightened
to draw tight if the canvas isn't properly stretched over the frame, there will be sagging over time

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stretched
  1. pulled
  2. tried
  3. tightened
  4. padded
  5. extended
  6. pushed
  7. increased
  8. strained
Verb
  • Michigan’s largest distributor of housing vouchers hasn't pulled a name off its general waitlist in nearly a year.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Brady and a few stringers quickly pulled together what Brady named Page Six because that’s the page where the column initially ran.
    Susan Mulcahy, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of pulled
Verb
  • The Bears didn’t well in any phase against the Orange, but Mendoza, who suffered first-half interceptions on consecutive pass attempts to set up 10 points by the Orange, tried to shoulder much of the blame.
    Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The Pelicans killed Denver on the glass, regardless of what lineups Adelman tried.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of tried
Verb
  • The rule first tightened the emissions standards for non-mercury metals.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In the early 2000s, the Bush administration tightened its commitment to defend Taiwan against an invasion by Communist China and enhance Taipei’s sense of security.
    Charles Walldorf, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of tightened
Verb
  • Folie à Deux is both overlong and empty, padded out with copious shots of characters walking down hallways or staring out of car windows.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Folie à Deux is both overlong and empty, padded out with copious shots of characters walking down hallways or staring out of car windows.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of padded
Verb
  • Lift your knees off the ground, and step your feet back so that your legs are straight and fully extended.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But rather than focus on the actual victims or damage, many right-wing influencers and politicians have extended their sympathies to a nonexistent girl and her puppy (who is also not real).
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of extended
Verb
  • Birds who pushed the door to the right were transferred into aviaries where the resident birds were pushing the door on the left and vice versa.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The Democratic-leaning Latino groups pushed back on that narrative, citing their own polling.
    Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of pushed
Verb
  • Lieberman said weekend ridership increased the most, providing half-hourly weekend train services instead of hourly.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • The Orange Democrat’s vote percentage has gradually increased as more ballots have been counted in recent days, eroding Steel’s initial lead of approximately 11,000 votes.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of increased
Verb
  • The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964).
    Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In Brockton, Massachusetts, immigrants from a variety of countries, including Haiti, Cape Verde and countries in Central and South America, have strained local resources — though mostly in the form of emergency shelter capacity.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of strained
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