Definitions for stretched
stretched

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. stretched(adj)

   (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching

   "well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"

2. stretched(adj)

   extended or spread over a wide area or distance

   "broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Stretched

   of Stretch

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

How to pronounce stretched?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Irackly Mtibelishvily:

   Fixed assets are already stretched to capacity and, if the Russian economy is to grow and increase its productive capacity, then a huge amount of investment is needed, local funding can only stretch so far; it is absolutely clear that the country needs international capital markets. There has to be some return to normality.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:

   A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

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. Youssef Zohny:

   The resource areas of the market have been extremely strong this year and likely are going to see a pullback here given they look pretty stretched and likely overbought.

5. Stephen Massocca:

   The fast and frenetic selling of the morning finally got exhausted and it seems like everything got too stretched to the downside, oil is going to be staying at some ridiculously low price for a very long period of time.

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