stretch

Definitions

• (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
• (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
• (transitive) To pull tight.
• (figuratively) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
• (figuratively) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
• (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
• (intransitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
• (intransitive) To extend to a limit point
• (transitive) To increase.
• (obsolete) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
• (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
• (slang) To execute by hanging.
• To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.