Synonyms of the word stretch


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stretch

  • v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
  • v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
  • v. (transitive) To pull tight.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
  • v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
  • v. (transitive) To increase.
  • v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
  • v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
  • n. An act of stretching.
  • n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
  • n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
  • n. A segment of a journey or route.
  • n. A segment or length of material.
  • n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
  • n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
  • n. A length of time.
  • n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
  • n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

adulterate

  • adj. Tending to commit adultery.
  • adj. Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
  • v. To corrupt.
  • v. To spoil by adding impurities.
  • v. To commit adultery.
  • v. To defile by adultery.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

broaden

  • v. (transitive) To make broad or broader.
  • v. (intransitive) To become broad or broader.

continuance

  • n. (uncountable) The action of continuing.
  • n. (countable, law) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.

corrupt

  • adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
  • adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
  • adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
  • v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
  • v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
  • v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

debase

  • v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
  • v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

deform

  • v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
  • v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
  • v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
  • v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
  • v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
  • adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

dilute

  • v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
  • v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
  • v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
  • v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
  • adj. Having a low concentration.
  • adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

draw

  • v. (heading) To move or develop something.
  • v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
  • v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
  • v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
  • v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
  • v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
  • v. To disembowel.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
  • v. A random selection process.
  • v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
  • v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
  • v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
  • n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
  • n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
  • n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
  • n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
  • n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
  • n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
  • n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
  • n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
  • n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
  • n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
  • n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
  • n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

duration

  • n. An amount of time or a particular time interval.
  • n. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the…
  • n. (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates,…

elastic

  • adj. Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size…
  • adj. Made of elastic.
  • adj. Of clothing, elasticated.
  • adj. (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.
  • adj. springy; bouncy; vivacious.
  • adj. Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power…
  • n. (uncountable) An elastic material used in clothing, particularly in waistbands and cuffs.
  • n. (countable) An elastic band.

elasticity

  • n. (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions…
  • n. (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
  • n. The quality of being elastic.
  • n. Adaptability.

elongate

  • adj. lengthened, extended.
  • adj. slender.
  • v. To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
  • v. To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its…
  • v. (obsolete) To remove further off.

exercise

  • n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
  • n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
  • n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
  • n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
  • n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
  • v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
  • v. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
  • v. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful…
  • v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

exercising

  • v. present participle of exercise.
  • n. The act by which something is exercised.

expanse

  • n. A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
  • n. An amount of spread or stretch.

extend

  • v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
  • v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
  • v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
  • v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
  • v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
  • v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
  • v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

extension

  • n. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in length or breadth;…
  • n. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
  • n. A part of a building that has been extended from the original.
  • n. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; —…
  • n. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay…
  • n. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight…
  • n. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
  • n. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
  • n. (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
  • n. (computing) A file extension.
  • n. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
  • n. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
  • n. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.

force

  • n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
  • n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
  • n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
  • n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
  • n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
  • n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
  • n. (law) Legal validity.
  • n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
  • n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
  • n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
  • v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
  • v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
  • v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
  • v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
  • v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
  • v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
  • v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
  • v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  • v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  • v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
  • n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
  • v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

grow

  • v. (ergative) To become bigger.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
  • v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
  • v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

increase

  • v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
  • v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
  • v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
  • n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
  • n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
  • n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

lengthen

  • v. (transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become longer.

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

long

  • adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually…
  • adj. Having great duration.
  • adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
  • adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim…
  • adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent…
  • adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
  • adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
  • adv. Over a great distance in space.
  • adv. For a particular duration.
  • adv. For a long duration.
  • n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
  • n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…
  • n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
  • n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
  • v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
  • adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
  • v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
  • n. longitude.

motility

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
  • n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

  • n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
  • n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
  • n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
  • n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
  • n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
  • n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
  • n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
  • n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
  • v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
  • v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
  • v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

  • n. Physical motion between points in space.
  • n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
  • n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
  • n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
  • n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
  • n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
  • n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
  • n. An act of emptying the bowels.
  • n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

pull

  • interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
  • n. An act of pulling (applying force).
  • n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
  • n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
  • n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
  • n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
  • n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
  • n. A journey made by rowing.
  • n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
  • n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
  • n. (slang) The act of drinking.
  • n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
  • n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
  • v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
  • v. To attract or net; to pull in.
  • v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
  • v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
  • v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
  • v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
  • v. (intransitive) To row.
  • v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
  • v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
  • v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
  • v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
  • v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
  • v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
  • v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
  • v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

reach

  • v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
  • v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
  • v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
  • v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
  • v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
  • v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
  • v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
  • v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
  • v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
  • v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
  • v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
  • v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
  • v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
  • n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
  • n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
  • n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
  • n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
  • n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
  • n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
  • n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
  • n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
  • n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
  • n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
  • n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

reaching

  • v. present participle of reach.
  • n. The action of one who reaches; an attempt to grasp something by stretching.
  • n. (nautical) Sailing on a reach, i.e. having the wind on either side and coming from an angle that is larger…

snap

  • n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
  • n. A sudden break.
  • n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
  • n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
  • n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
  • n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
  • n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
  • n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
  • n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
  • n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
  • n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
  • n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
  • n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
  • n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
  • n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
  • n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
  • n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
  • n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
  • n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
  • n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
  • n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
  • n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
  • n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
  • n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
  • v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
  • v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
  • v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
  • v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
  • v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
  • v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
  • v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
  • v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
  • v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
  • v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
  • v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
  • v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
  • v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
  • v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
  • v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
  • v. To misfire.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
  • interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
  • interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
  • interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
  • interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
  • interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
  • adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

spoil

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  • v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
  • v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
  • n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  • n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

stint

  • n. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
  • n. limit; bound; restraint; extent.
  • n. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  • v. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
  • v. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  • v. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour…
  • v. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
  • n. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or…
  • n. Misspelling of stent (medical device).

straight

  • adj. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
  • adj. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
  • adj. Figurative uses.
  • adj. Colloquial uses.
  • adj. (sciences, mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course…
  • adv. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
  • adv. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
  • adv. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
  • n. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
  • n. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
  • n. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
  • n. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
  • n. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also straighter.
  • v. (transitive) To straighten.

straightaway

  • n. A straight section of a racetrack.
  • adv. At once; immediately.
  • adj. extending into the distance in a straight line.

strain

  • n. (obsolete) Treasure.
  • n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  • n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
  • n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  • n. A tendency or disposition.
  • n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
  • n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
  • n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
  • n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
  • v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
  • v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
  • v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
  • v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
  • v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
  • v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
  • v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
  • v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
  • v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
  • v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  • v. To urge with importunity; to press.
  • n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  • n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
  • n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  • n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
  • n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

stretchability

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being stretchable.
  • n. (countable) The extent to which something is stretchable.

stretchiness

  • n. The state or condition of being stretchy.

stretching

  • n. The act by which something is stretched.
  • n. A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated…
  • v. present participle of stretch.

tense

  • n. (grammar, countable) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs…
  • n. (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
  • n. (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of…
  • v. (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to.
  • adj. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
  • adj. Pulled taut, without any slack.
  • v. To make or become tense.

unfold

  • v. To undo a folding.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
  • v. (transitive) To reveal.
  • v. To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details,…
  • v. To release from a fold or pen.
  • n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite…

widen

  • v. (intransitive) To become wide or wider.
  • v. (transitive) To make wide or wider.
  • v. (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
  • v. (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.

workout

  • n. An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
  • n. A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal.
  • n. (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain.

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