as in enlarged
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as in exaggerated
to add to the interest of by including made-up details
it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version
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as in lengthened
to make longer
the time it would take to fix the car got stretched from three hours to two days when the part we needed had to be ordered
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as in tried
to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress
your whining is stretching my patience to the limit
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as in tightened
to draw tight
if the canvas isn't properly stretched over the frame, there will be sagging over time
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“Stretched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stretched. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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