STRETCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stretched mean? 

• STRETCHED (adjective)
  The adjective STRETCHED has 2 senses:

1. (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching

2. extended or spread over a wide area or distance

  Familiarity information: STRETCHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRETCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching

Context example:

well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury

Similar:

flexible; flexile (able to flex; able to bend easily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extended or spread over a wide area or distance

Context example:

broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us

Similar:

extended (fully extended or stretched forth)

 Context examples 

It was a neat little thing, and I had stretched out my hand to examine it more closely, when——

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the long cactus-strewn levels still stretched away, empty and bare, to the distant line of the cane-brake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the evening the seven dwarfs came home; and I need not say how grieved they were to see their faithful Snowdrop stretched out upon the ground, as if she was quite dead.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He lay as we had left him, on his back, with his eyes open and one arm stretched out.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had stretched out on his bunk to rest, lying on his side, his head on his arm.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Don’t you think you’ve stretched that neck of yours just about enough?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Who are you?" asked the Scarecrow when he had stretched himself and yawned. "And where are you going?"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I was obliged to make a show of taking the hand he stretched across to me; and then, with very different emotions, I took the hand of the broken gentleman, his partner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The condition of being dilated or stretched.

(Dilation, NCI Thesaurus)

It opened slowly: a figure came out into the twilight and stood on the step; a man without a hat: he stretched forth his hand as if to feel whether it rained.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)