Usually means: Elongate muscles to increase flexibility.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word stretch:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stretch, the stretch: Merriam-Webster
  3. stretch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stretch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stretch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stretch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stretch, stretch: Wordnik
  8. stretch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stretch: Wiktionary
  10. stretch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stretch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stretch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stretch: Dictionary.com
  14. stretch (n.), stretch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stretch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. STRETCH, Stretch (Toy Story), Stretch (album), Stretch (band), Stretch (comics), Stretch (disambiguation), Stretch (nickname), Stretch (rapper), Stretch (surname), Stretch, The Stretch (TV series), The Stretch (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stretch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stretch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stretch: Rhymezone
  20. stretch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stretch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stretch: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stretch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stretch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. stretch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  3. stretch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stretch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretch: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. STRETCH: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. STRETCH: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. stretch: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stretch: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretch, stretch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stretch: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Stretch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Paper Making (No longer online)

(Note: See stretchability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
verb:  (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
verb:  (transitive) To pull tight.
verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
verb:  (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
verb:  (intransitive) To extend to a limit point
verb:  (transitive) To increase.
verb:  (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
verb:  (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
verb:  (slang, transitive, archaic) To execute by hanging.
verb:  (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
noun:  An act of stretching.
noun:  The ability to lengthen when pulled.
noun:  A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
noun:  A segment of a journey or route.
noun:  A segment or length of material.
noun:  (UK, slang, archaic) A walk.
noun:  (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
noun:  (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
noun:  (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
noun:  (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
noun:  A length of time.
noun:  (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
noun:  (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
noun:  (slang) A jail or prison term.
noun:  (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
noun:  A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
noun:  Ellipsis of stretch limousine. [A luxury car which is especially built to be longer than normal.]

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