stretched
- 1Simple past and past participle of stretch.
The runner stretched carefully before the race began.
The canvas was stretched tightly across the wooden frame.
Note
One spelling does two grammatical jobs, because stretch takes the regular -ed ending. After have it builds the perfect (she has stretched the canvas); after be it builds the passive (the canvas was stretched). The figurative meanings carry over unchanged: a budget stretched further than expected, a story stretched by exaggeration. Transitive and intransitive uses look identical, so the object, or its absence, shows which is meant.
stretched is a form of stretch
stretch, verb: To make something longer or wider by pulling it, or to become longer or wider when pulled. Full entry
- Forms
- stretchstretches he/she/itstretching -ing formstretched past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- stretch → stretched: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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