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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stretch \Stretch\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stretched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stretching}.] [OE. strecchen, AS. streccan; akin to D. strekken, G. strecken, OHG. strecchen, Sw. str["a]cka, Dan. str[ae]kke; cf. AS. str[ae]ck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to E. strong. Cf. {Straight}.]
1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
And stretch forth his neck long and small. --Chaucer.
I in conquest stretched mine arm. --Shak.
2. To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
3. To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
4. To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain. --Shak.
5. To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. --Doddridge.
6. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
They take up, one day, the most violent and stretched prerogative. --Burke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stretching \Stretch"ing\, a. & n. from {Stretch}, v.
{Stretching course} (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See {Stretcher}, 2. --Britton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stretching
adjective: extending far; "beyond the misty gray of the rain he saw the stretching hutment"; "wide-spreading plains" [syn: {stretching(a)}, {wide-spreading}]
noun
1: act of expanding by lengthening or widening
2: exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent [syn: {stretch}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "stretching": aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, breaking point, burlesque, caricature, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, doziness, dropsy, drowsiness, edema, elongation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extension, extravagance, extreme, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gassiness, grandiloquence, heaviness, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, languor, lengthening, lethargy, magnification, meteorism, oscitancy, oscitation, overdistension, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overexpansion, overextension, overkill, overstatement, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pandiculation, prodigality, production, profuseness, prolongation, protraction, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, sensationalism, sleepiness, snapping point, somnolence, somnolency, strain, straining, stretch, stringing out, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, tension, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, windiness, yawning
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