The body
Synonyms for stretch
Synonyms for stretch: extend and elongate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for stretch
- extendverb, in the sense "extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body"
- elongateverb, in the sense "make long or longer by pulling and stretching"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of stretch, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
Stretch your legs!
The true synonym
extend
Same sentence, swapped: Extend your legs!
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- load
- season
- practice
make long or longer by pulling and stretching
Stretch the fabric.
The true synonym
elongate
Same sentence, swapped: Elongate the fabric.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for stretch in the sentence quoted.
- load
- unfold
- season
Where stretch turns up in the game
stretch is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where stretch is the trap
- contortverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is twist, in the sense "to twist or bend something out of its normal shape", and stretch is on the board beside it.
- loadverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is charge, in the sense "provide (a device) with something necessary", with stretch sitting one tile away.
- sprintverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is dash, in the sense "to run at full speed over a short distance", with stretch sitting one tile away.
- loadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is laden, in the sense "fill or place a load on", with stretch sitting one tile away.
Play stretch
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stretch reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because the body is the company stretch keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stretch carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.