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To lengthen by pulling.
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I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
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To lengthen when pulled.
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The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
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To pull tight.
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First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
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To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
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I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
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To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
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To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
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To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
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The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
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To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
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Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.
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To extend to a limit point
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His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.
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To increase.
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To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
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a man apt to stretch in his report of facts
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To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
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The ship stretched to the eastward.
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To execute by hanging.
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To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.