Definitions
1.verbTo lengthen by pulling."I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke."
2.verbTo lengthen when pulled."The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point."
3.verbTo pull tight."First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum."
4.verbTo get more use than expected from a limited resource."I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days."
5.verbTo make inaccurate by exaggeration."To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably."
6.verbTo extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point."The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble."
7.verbTo extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles"Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack."
8.verbTo extend to a limit point"His mustache stretched all the way to his sideburns."
9.verbTo increase.
10.verbTo stretch the truth; to exaggerate."a man apt to stretch in his report of facts"
11.verbTo sail by the wind under press of canvas."The ship stretched to the eastward."
12.verbTo execute by hanging.
13.verbTo make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.