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upstretched

upstretched adjective: stretched upwards.

Adjective

upstretched (comparative more upstretched, superlative most upstretched)

  1. Stretched upwards.
    • I would grab her upstretched arms and swing her onto my hip, and we would walk around the neighborhood until we found something to do.2007 October 21, Alexis Wolff, “Too Bad for Me That She Was So Well Loved”, in New York Times

Forms of upstretched

comparativemore upstretched
superlativemost upstretched

Origin of upstretched

From up- + stretched.

Questions about upstretched

What does upstretched mean?
Upstretched means stretched upwards.
What part of speech is upstretched?
Upstretched is an adjective.

Words near upstretched in the dictionary

  1. upstreamness
  2. upstreams
  3. upstreamward
  4. upstreamwards
  5. upstreet
  6. upstretched
  7. upstrike
  8. upstrikes
  9. upstrive
  10. upstriven
  11. upstrives

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