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stretch
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of STRETCH
1
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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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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to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress <your whining is stretching my patience to the limit>
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