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stretchingnoun the act of making longerexcessive stretching can cause the fabric to tear or lose its elasticity the representation of something in terms that go beyond the factsyour constant stretching of the truth is going to get you in trouble someday caricature, coloring, elaboration, embellishment, embroidering, embroidery, exaggeration, hyperbole, magnification, overstatement, padding amplification, enhancementfabrication, misrepresentationfudging, hedginghype, pufferysuperlative meiosis, understatement belittlement, disparagement, minimizing, poor-mouthing 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 coloring, elaborating (on), embellishing, embroidering, exaggerating, hyperbolizing, magnifying, padding dressing up, gussying upamplifying, enhancing, enlarging (on or upon), expanding, fleshing (out)fudging, hedgingoverdoing, overdrawing, overemphasizing, overplaying, overstatingemphasizing, playing up, stressingcaricaturingsatirizing belittling, minimizing, playing down, understating to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressureI stretched a back muscle, and the pain is killing me pulling, racking, straining, wrenching fraying, taxing, weakeningdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, woundingbattering, bruising, tearingcrippling, laming, mangling, mutilating 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 dragging (out), drawing out, elongating, extending, lengthening, outstretching, prolonging, protracting amplifying, enlarging, expanding, increasingattenuating, thinning abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, shortening decreasing, diminishing, lessening, reducingthickening to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stressyour whining is stretching my patience to the limit straining, taxing, testing, trying demanding, exacting, importuning, pressing, pressuring, pushingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting (to), gnawing (at), grating, harassing, harrying, hassling, irking, irritating, nettling, paining, peeving, pestering, riling, spiting, vexing to draw tightif the canvas isn't properly stretched over the frame, there will be sagging over time straining, tautening, tensing, tightening elongating, extending, lengtheningcinching, constricting loosening, slackening, slacking easing, relaxing |