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stretching out

stretching out is the present participle and gerund of stretch out.

Meaning of stretch out

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.

Questions about stretching out

What is stretching out the present participle and gerund of?
Stretching out is the present participle and gerund of stretch out.

Words near stretching out in the dictionary

  1. stretching frames
  2. stretching hemp
  3. stretching it out
  4. stretching one's legs
  5. stretching one's wings
  6. stretching out
  7. stretching rope
  8. stretching the envelope
  9. stretching the long bow
  10. stretching the point
  11. stretching the rules

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stretching out (page history and authors); stretch out (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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