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Definition of Stretched

1. Adjective. (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching. "Well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"

2. Adjective. Extended or spread over a wide area or distance. "Broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us"

Definition of Stretched

1. Verb. (past of ''stretch'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stretched

1. stretch [v] - See also: stretch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stretched

stretch forth stretch limo stretch limos stretch mark stretch marks stretch one's legs stretch out stretch pants stretch receptor stretch reflex

stretch the truth stretchabilities stretchability stretchable stretchably stretched stretched out stretched the truth stretchedness stretcher-bearer

stretcher party stretchered stretchering stretchers stretches stretches out stretches the truth stretchest stretcheth

Literary usage of Stretched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anthology of Irish Verse by Padraic Colum (1922)
"The Night Before Larry Was Stretched ... night before Larry was stretched, The boys they all paid him a visit; A bait in their sacks, too, they fetched; ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"Locating Soundings by Distances along a Wire Stretched across a Stream. ... stream gauging measurements a wire or rope is sometimes stretched taut from one ..."

3. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"I would almost have stretched out my wrists for the handcuffs. I would not have offered the slightest resistance; on the contrary, I would have assisted ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"A string stretched on a surface lies in a geodesic; keeping one extremity of the string fixed at a point P and rotating about P, the second extremity of the ..."

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