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To pull tight.

First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.

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To lengthen by pulling.

I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.

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To lengthen when pulled.

The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.

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To get more use than expected from a limited resource.

I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.

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To make inaccurate by exaggeration.

To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.

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To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.

Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, [ …] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.

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To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles

Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.

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To extend to a limit point

His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns.

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To increase.

Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.

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To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.

a man apt to stretch in his report of facts

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To sail by the wind under press of canvas.

The ship stretched to the eastward.

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