stretch out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
Unfold the newspaper
Types & categories
- change shape hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
lie down comfortably
To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass
Types & categories
- lie down hypernym
Sense 3 verb
thrust or extend out
He held out his hand
Types & categories
- motion hypernym
- hyperextend hyponym
Related & opposite
- extensor muscle derivation
- extensile derivation
- extendible derivation
Sense 4 verb
extend one's body or limbs
Let's stretch for a minute--we've been sitting here for over 3 hours
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
- reaching derivation
Sense 5 verb
stretch (the neck) so as to see better
The women craned their necks to see the President drive by
Types & categories
- stretch hypernym
Related & opposite
- crane derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | extensile |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | extend |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change shape |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | lie down |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | extensor muscle |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | extensile |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | extendible |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | motion |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hyperextend |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | reaching |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | crane |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | stretch |