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. 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.

2. General Manager:

   From my end, it'll be, he'll show up like everybody else, he'll be in his hitting group and his fielding group, stretching, all that stuff, conditioning side of it. It'll be no different from our end.

3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

4. Wen Yang:

   We were able to see how the collagen fibers deform without a catastrophic failure including the mechanisms of twisting, folding, sliding, stretching, delamination.

5. Pat Schloss:

   It's really helpful in stretching our concept of what is the human microbiome.