STRETCHED Synonyms: 130 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in enlarged

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verb

past tense of stretch

as in exaggerated

to add to the interest of by including made-up details it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version

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as in pulled

to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure I stretched a back muscle, and the pain is killing me

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as in lengthened

to make longer the time it would take to fix the car got stretched from three hours to two days when the part we needed had to be ordered

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as in tried

to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress your whining is stretching my patience to the limit

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as in tightened

to draw tight if the canvas isn't properly stretched over the frame, there will be sagging over time

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Recent Examples of stretched

Adjective

This feed-in jumbo braid updo on Teyonah Parris is achieved by adding a lot of pre-stretched braiding hair when creating the cornrows. — Omenaa Boakye, InStyle, 19 July 2026 But the case shapes alone tell you Samsung isn’t treating the Wide as a stretched version of the Ultra. — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Wiley often wears her hair in a stretched state, combing through her gray coils with a blow dryer before doing a braid-out. — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 29 May 2026 Once activated, the Fe-SMA bars aim to shrink back to their pre-stretched shape. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026 It’s formulated with calcium to promote new cell growth, adenosine to fill in wrinkles, collagen to maintain your skin’s density and thickness, elastin to restore stretched skin, and Vitamin D for rejuvenation. — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026 America’s health care system is straining under the twin pressures of an aging population and a stretched pool of health care providers. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025

Verb

In a few small depressions farthest from the river, auburn-brown vegetation and peat have stretched into thick floating mats across open water, forming what’s known as a quaking bog. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 The confrontation led to a standoff that stretched into Friday morning. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Renters are stretched to a record Renting offers little relief. — Heather Occhino, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Actor Alan Mandell, who died at 98, helped shape Los Angeles theater as a performer, director, administrator and arts supporter whose influence stretched from experimental stages to the Mark Taper Forum. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Another photo showed Hurley posing for a mirror selfie in the same white robe, with one leg stretched across the bed. — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Rate-sensitive buyers getting spooked In Los Angeles, Brock and Lori Harris, a husband-and-wife real estate team, said buyers whose budgets are stretched by the prospect of higher mortgage payments have begun stepping back from the market. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 Though both candidates trod familiar themes that stretched back over four years and Bailey’s unsuccessful 2022 challenge to Pritzker, some issues were new. — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026 With the militia stretched thin, Riyadh sees an opportunity to defeat it or force it back to negotiations. — Faisal J. Abbas, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stretched

Adjective

Each lancet carries a flexible valve that moves within an enlarged chamber, or bulb, where venom collects before being expelled.

— Mike McRae October 12, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
His family later said his death was due to an enlarged heart coupled with aortic valve complications.

— Elizabeth Rosner, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of enlarged

Verb

Standard laboratory models greatly exaggerated the actual performance of liquid thermogalvanic cells.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
The teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, in a memo to school board members, presented a counter interpretation and said the state team exaggerated the crisis and was implicitly faulting justified wage increases.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of exaggerated

Verb

Shohei Ohtani emerged from the visiting dugout at American Family Field with a bat in his hand, and the mass of media members scattered in foul territory up the third-base line shifted his way, pulled by the magnetic force that is Ohtani’s stardom.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
On Wednesday, the Congressional Leadership Fund, the House Republicans' super PAC, effectively dropped its push to boost Tijerina and pulled millions of dollars in ads from the district, a person familiar with the decision confirmed.

— Justin Papp, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of pulled

Verb

During construction, it was lengthened by 39 feet, adding a submarine hangar, a media studio, and a 3-D-printing and robotics laboratory.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
The cash conversion cycle has lengthened, inventory turnover has slowed, and average days on the lot have crept higher.

— Michael Khouw, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of lengthened

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The woman tried to intervene as her father was being assaulted, and Gonzalez also allegedly attacked her, authorities said.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Trump on Monday alluded to his own frustrations over the reports, which include allegations that Guilfoyle tried to solicit money from a donor to pay off her credit card ahead of her confirmation process (Guilfoyle has denied the story).

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of tried

Verb

When evidence is incomplete or when confidence decreases and risk increases, autonomy should be reduced and the human boundary tightened.

— Asaf Wiener, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Since early September, FiftyPlusOne's polling average has tightened modestly, from about a 3-point advantage for Democrat Troy Jackson in early September to roughly 2 points now.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tightened

Adjective

The bar locks the padded restraint into place over the rider’s lap and upper legs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Thomas, strapped down in a padded room, initially panics when Vision arrives because the Tommy memories Thomas tried to suppress now have physical form.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of padded

Verb

French newspaper Le Monde reported that hackers also extended the defrost cycle in some freezers and cold-storage rooms from one hour to eight hours to delay alarms.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
Reyes said the 24-hour temporary order could be extended to 14 days if necessary.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026