"stretch out" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: stretches out [present, singular, third-person], stretching out [participle, present], stretched out [participle, past], stretched out [past]
Etymology: stretch + out Etymology templates: {{com|en|stretch|out}} stretch + out Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: intransitive Translations (to lie fully extended): maata pitkin pituuttaan (Finnish), s’étendre (French), estricar (Galician), estarricar (Galician), spannen (German), uusstrecke [Alemannic-German] (German), kinyújtózik (Hungarian), elnyújtózik (Hungarian), nyújtózik (Hungarian), estirar-se (Portuguese), простира́ться (prostirátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-stretch_out-en-verb-biKvvqok Disambiguation of 'to lie fully extended': 81 19
  2. (transitive) To extend (something) fully. Tags: transitive Derived forms: stretch-out [noun], stretchout [noun] Translations (to extend fully): مَدَّدَ (maddada) (Arabic), اِمْتَدَّ (imtadda) (Arabic), ojentaa (suoraksi) (Finnish), tendre (French), estricar (Galician), estarricar (Galician), dehnen (German), kinyújt (Hungarian), nyújt (Hungarian), oentaa (Ingrian), totoro (Maori), ਤਾਣਨਾ (tāṇnā) (Punjabi), протя́гивать (protjágivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), протяну́ть (protjanútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), вытя́гивать (vytjágivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́тянуть (výtjanutʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-stretch_out-en-verb-fek73z~5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 17 83 Disambiguation of 'to extend fully': 40 60

Inflected forms

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