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stretch out

stretch out verb: to lie fully extended.

Verb

stretch out (third-person singular simple present stretches out, present participle stretching out, simple past and past participle stretched out)

  1. (intransitive) To lie fully extended.
    • My cat likes stretching out in front of the fire.
  2. (transitive) To extend (something) fully, in space, time or use.
    • You have to stretch your presentation out another two minutes.
    • Please don't stretch out your sweater by pulling it on and off carelessly.

stretch out meaning in Kannada, Punjabi, Sanskrit and Arabic

stretch out in Kannada

ಚಾಚು, ನೀಡು, ಕೆಯ್ಯೊಡ್ಡು, ಕಯ್ಯೊಡ್ಡು, ಕೈಯೊಡ್ಡು, ಪೊರವಾಯ್

stretch out in Punjabi

to extend fully
ਤਾਣਨਾ tāṇnā

stretch out in Sanskrit

to stretch out, extend for
लम्बयति lambayati
to stretch out, expand, spread, display, show
यम् yam
to stretch out, extend
विसृज् visṛj

stretch out in Arabic

to extend fully
مَدَّدَ maddada, اِمْتَدَّ imtadda

Forms of stretch out

third-person singular presentstretches out
present participlestretching out
past participlestretched out
paststretched out

Origin of stretch out

From stretch + out.

Words formed from stretch out

Questions about stretch out

What does stretch out mean?
Stretch out means to lie fully extended.
What is stretch out in Kannada?
Stretch out in Kannada is ಚಾಚು, ನೀಡು, ಕೆಯ್ಯೊಡ್ಡು. See Stretch out meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is stretch out?
Stretch out is a verb.
What is the past tense of stretch out?
The past tense of stretch out is stretched out.

Words near stretch out in the dictionary

  1. stretch limousines
  2. stretch mark
  3. stretch marks
  4. stretch one's legs
  5. stretch one's wings
  6. stretch out
  7. stretch pants
  8. stretch printing
  9. stretch rope
  10. stretch shortening cycle
  11. stretch target

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stretch out (page history and authors); stretch out (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); यम् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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