The act by which something is stretched.
[Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
Requiring a high level of effort or performance.
present participle and gerund of stretch
From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch + -ing.
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