Definition of stretch

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Stretch (v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles..

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Frame :: Frame (n.) A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched.
Foreside :: Foreside (n.) The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea..
Procrusteanize :: Procrusteanize (v. t.) To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.
Shampoo :: Shampoo (v. t.) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath..
Overstrain :: Overstrain (v. t.) To stretch or strain too much; as to overstrain one's nerves.
Porrection :: Porrection (n.) The act of stretching forth.
Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like..
Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.
Stretch :: Stretch (n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination..
Litter :: Litter (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it..
Intention :: Intention (n.) A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
Pandiculated :: Pandiculated (a.) Extended; spread out; stretched.
Burst :: Burst (n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse..
Intense :: Intense (a.) Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought..
Upright :: Upright (a.) Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
Ambulance :: Ambulance (n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps..
Intensive :: Intensive (a.) Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified..
Stretcher :: Stretch (n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal..
Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..
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