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stre ching

  • n  act of expanding by lengthening or widening
  • n  exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
  • v  occupy a large, elongated area
  • v  extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
  • v  extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
  • v  become longer by being stretched and pulled
  • v  make long or longer by pulling and stretching
  • v  lie down comfortably
  • v  pull in opposite directions
  • v  extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
  • v  corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
  • v  increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
  • v  extend one's body or limbs

  • It is possible, though, to injure yourself by stretching improperly.
  • In addition to a more dynamic regimen of weight training, since 2000, she has been taking advantage of resistance stretching, a flexibility and strength-building program that uses .
  • Contract your muscles while stretching them and get a workout worthy of an Olympian.
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  • Joe Torre in RealGM.com
    The fact is, 10 years ago, we had a budget surplus of more than $200 billion, with projected surpluses stretching out toward the horizon. Yet over the course of the past 10 years, the previous administration and previous Congresses created an... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA Atlantic Online (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/02/selling_the_budget_its_about_restraint.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNELHOZj3eYonC0jhSDCK1RiTTCxDw Feb 1, 2010 95324 126635 stretching He was busy stretching and talking to other people, so that's not what I call disrespect," Torre said afterward. "If we had come close enough, I'm certain that we would have shook hands. I wasn't there solely for him to come over."
  • Joe Girardi in MLB.com
    You watch him closely to make sure that there's nothing wrong,Girardi said. "I know Alex will be honest with his body, and he works very hard. He'll do all the stretching necessary and possible to get on the field."

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