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stretchedverbpast tense of stretch to add to the interest of by including made-up detailsit 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 colored, elaborated (on), embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, hyperbolized, magnified, padded dressed up, gussied upamplified, enhanced, enlarged (on or upon), expanded, fleshed (out)fudged, hedgedoverdid, overdrew, overemphasized, overplayed, overstatedemphasized, played up, stressedcaricaturedsatirized belittled, minimized, played down, understated to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressureI stretched a back muscle, and the pain is killing me pulled, racked, strained, wrenched frayed, taxed, weakeneddamaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, woundedbattered, bruised, torecrippled, lamed, mangled, mutilated to make longerthe 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 dragged (out), drew out, elongated, extended, lengthened, outstretched, prolonged, protracted amplified, enlarged, expanded, increasedattenuated, thinned abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut, cut back, shortened decreased, diminished, lessened, reducedthickened to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stressyour whining is stretching my patience to the limit strained, taxed, tested, tried demanded, exacted, importuned, pressed, pressured, pushedaggravated, agitated, annoyed, bothered, exasperated, galled, gnawed (at), got (to), grated, harassed, harried, hassled, irked, irritated, nettled, pained, peeved, pestered, riled, spited, vexed(also vext) to draw tightif the canvas isn't properly stretched over the frame, there will be sagging over time strained, tautened, tensed, tightened elongated, extended, lengthenedcinched, constricted loosened, slacked, slackened eased, relaxed |