STRETCH Copy link • STRETCH 1. v. Transitively, intendere (that which before was slack; e.g., chordas, arcum): contendere (that which was already stretched, to draw more tightly; e.g., arcum, tormenta): extendere (to stretch out, in length): intendere aliquid aliqua re (to stretch anything over another): producere (so as to lengthen): nimis extendere: modum excedere in aliqua re (to overstrain, outdo; e.g., one’s authority). To stretch out, porrigere; portendere (before one); tendere; extendere (at full length): to stretch out the arms, brachia projicere (opposed to contrahere): to stretch one’s self out on the grass, se abjicere in herba (☞ not in herbam; Vid: Cic., De Or., 1, 7, 28, Orelli). Intransitively, porrigi: pertinere: patere: diffundi: excurrere: procurrere: tendere: extendi (☞ not pertingere). [Vid: also, EXTEND, REACH.] To stretch, or stretch one’s self = to yawn, pandiculari (= “toto corpore oscitantem extendi,” Festus). 2. s. intentio (opposed to remissio), or by circumlocution with the verb.