Synonyms for stretching
stretch·ing

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1. stretchingnoun

   act of expanding by lengthening or widening

   Synonyms:
   stretch

2. stretch, stretchingnoun

   exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

   Synonyms:
   stint, reach, stretchiness, stretch, stretchability, reaching

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1. • Exercise
   • Expansion

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1. stretchingnoun

   Synonyms:
   tension, distension, extension, porrection, pandiculation, intension

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1. List of paraphrases for "stretching":

   stretch, extending

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1. Author Unknown:

   Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

2. Yasmani Grandal:

   We’re kind of following a schedule where I’m starting to catch, i’m supposed to be starting to hit. I’m running. Now we’re going to get into stretching and mobility and stuff like that just because my last week and a half, two weeks, I haven’t been able to really stretch it out because they want to let it heal.

3. Maximiliano Isi:

   The secret to this whole business is that the waveform the pattern of this stretching and squeezing encodes information on the source, the thing that made this gravitational wave.

4. Poonsuk Poonsukcharoen:

   With legitimacy stretching thin and achievements falling flat, the junta feels the pressure to silence critics to maintain its power.

5. Riverkeeper Dan Tonsmeire:

   With the exacerbated drought conditions that we have now, it’s like stretching the rubber band a lot further than where we would typically get to, you get to a point where the rubber band won’t come back to where it was or even worse it would break and the system unravels.