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say it: strech
stretch is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "occupy a large, elongated area". It carries 20 recorded senses.
occupy a large, elongated area
“The park stretched beneath the train line”
extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
“Unfold the newspaper”
“stretch out that piece of cloth”
“extend the TV antenna”
lie down comfortably
“To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass”
extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
“Stretch the limits”
“stretch my patience”
“stretch the imagination”
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
“adulterate liquor”
extend one's body or limbs
“Let's stretch for a minute--we've been sitting here for over 3 hours”
exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
“running at full stretch”
“by no stretch of the imagination”
“beyond any stretch of his understanding”
the capacity for being stretched
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stretch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.