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- October 31 2023
- Lengthen, as a rubber band
Lengthen, as a rubber band
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| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | STRETCH | Lengthen, as a rubber band | Newsday |
Definition
| • | To reach out; to extend; to put forth. |
| • | To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope. |
| • | To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings. |
| • | To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly. |
| • | To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle. |
| • | To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit. |
| • | To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles. |
| • | To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches. |
| • | To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances. |
| • | To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts. |
| • | To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward. |
| • | Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination. |
| • | A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land. |
| • | The extent to which anything may be stretched. |
| • | The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board. |
| • | Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal. |
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