stretch
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- To pull; to move one end of something as far as possible from the other end.
- He was big and the shirt was little, but he was able to stretch it and use it.
- Fill a certain place
- The Alps stretch from France to Austria.
Noun[change]
- A stretch is when a person pulls something.
- A stretch is a length of time.
- John was stuck in jail for a ten-year stretch.
- A statement is a stretch when it is changed or exaggerated from the truth.
- That is a stretch! I do not think you are being entirely truthful to me.