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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stretchedadjective

    (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching

    "well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"

  2. stretchedadjective

    extended or spread over a wide area or distance

    "broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us"

Wikipedia

  1. stretched

    Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific muscle or tendon (or muscle group) is deliberately flexed or stretched in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and achieve comfortable muscle tone. The result is a feeling of increased muscle control, flexibility, and range of motion. Stretching is also used therapeutically to alleviate cramps and to improve function in daily activities by increasing range of motion.In its most basic form, stretching is a natural and instinctive activity; it is performed by humans and many other animals. It can be accompanied by yawning. Stretching often occurs instinctively after waking from sleep, after long periods of inactivity, or after exiting confined spaces and areas. Not only vertebrates (mammals and birds), but also spiders were found to exhibit stretching in 2021.Increasing flexibility through stretching is one of the basic tenets of physical fitness. It is common for athletes to stretch before (for warming up) and after exercise in an attempt to reduce risk of injury and increase performance.: 42 Stretching can be dangerous when performed incorrectly. There are many techniques for stretching in general, but depending on which muscle group is being stretched, some techniques may be ineffective or detrimental, even to the point of causing hypermobility, instability, or permanent damage to the tendons, ligaments, and muscle fiber. The physiological nature of stretching and theories about the effect of various techniques are therefore subject to heavy inquiry. Though static stretching is a part of some pre and post-workout routines, a review article that was published in January 2020 by the Scandinavian Society of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, indicated that pre-exercise static stretching did in-fact reduce an individual's overall muscular strength and maximal performance. Furthermore, these findings present a uniform effect, regardless of an individual's age, sex, or training status. For this reason, an active dynamic warm-up is recommended before exercise in place of static stretching.

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  1. stretched

    Stretched refers to the state or condition of being extended or expanded, often to its limit, physically or metaphorically. This could pertain to situations like a material being pulled in opposite directions to increase its length, an individual extending a body part in order to improve flexibility, or a resource being used to its maximum capacity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stretched

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Stretched' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4415

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Stretched in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Stretched in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Stretched in a Sentence

  1. Jake Tapper:

    So, the hospitals are still stretched thin because of this ... but if 40% in some hospitals- 40% of the people who have COVID don't necessarily have problematic COVID- they're there because they got in a car accident, they're there because, you know, they bump their head, and they're being included as ‘in the hospital with COVID,’ that number seems kind of misleading.

  2. Justin Turner:

    It was a little bit higher throw, I was stretched out fully for it, I thought I kept my foot on, umpire thought otherwise, then went back and looked at replay, it's pretty close, couldn't overturn it I guess.

  3. Leigh Henry:

    The threat is still the gillnet, but Leigh Henry’re now dealing with a whole new industry, instead of legal shrimp fishers, we’re now dealing with transnational organized crime and people working on the black market. In the last few years, the Mexican government has stepped up its efforts to curtail poaching in the Gulf of California – the body of water that separates the Baja Peninsula from the rest of Mexico – adding in June two small boats, a number of vehicles and 135 sailors to an enforcement force deployed in 2015 under the Upper Gulf of California Integrated Protection Program. The new support joined the 13 ships, five vehicles, a helicopter-carrying ship and a plane already deployed to combat illegal fishing in the region. The U.S., which is seen as the main transshipment country for the totoaba’s bladders, has also joined in the fight against traffickers. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 1,328 pounds of totoaba fish bladders that were in route to Hong Kong. While conservationists agree that the main battle to save the totoaba and vaquita is in Mexican water, they acknowledge that the demand for the bladders in China is the reason for the illegal trade and argued that officials in Beijing and Hong Kong need to crack down on the underground fish trade. ' WORLD'S SADDEST POLAR BEAR' MOVED AFTER OUTPOURING OF OUTRAGE TOWARDS CHINESE MALL The problem, experts argue, is that wildlife trafficking is so pervasive in the world’s most populous nation that authorities are stretched thin and forced to give priority to larger cases.

  4. Amer Tiwana:

    A successful debt swap for Arch could add to the liquidity runway, deleverage the balance sheet and motivate management to keep the company alive, but barring some sort of miracle in the coal market, liquidity is still stretched.

  5. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

    A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

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