stretch – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of stretch

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Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to stretch out
Participle: stretched out
Gerund: stretching out

Cognates

See the 4 cognates of stretch

Indicative

Present

Istretch out
youstretch out
he;she;itstretches out
westretch out
youstretch out
theystretch out

Perfect

Ihave stretched out
youhave stretched out
he;she;ithas stretched out
wehave stretched out
youhave stretched out
theyhave stretched out

Past

Istretched out
youstretched out
he;she;itstretched out
westretched out
youstretched out
theystretched out

Pluperfect

Ihad stretched out
youhad stretched out
he;she;ithad stretched out
wehad stretched out
youhad stretched out
theyhad stretched out

Future

Iwill stretch out
youwill stretch out
he;she;itwill stretch out
wewill stretch out
youwill stretch out
theywill stretch out

Future Perfect

Iwill have stretched out
youwill have stretched out
he;she;itwill have stretched out
wewill have stretched out
youwill have stretched out
theywill have stretched out

Subjunctive

Present

Istretch out
youstretch out
he;she;itstretch out
westretch out
youstretch out
theystretch out

Perfect

Ihave stretched out
youhave stretched out
he;she;ithave stretched out
wehave stretched out
youhave stretched out
theyhave stretched out

Imperfect

Istretched out
youstretched out
he;she;itstretched out
westretched out
youstretched out
theystretched out

Pluperfect

Ihad stretched out
youhad stretched out
he;she;ithad stretched out
wehad stretched out
youhad stretched out
theyhad stretched out

Conditional

Present

Iwould stretch out
youwould stretch out
he;she;itwould stretch out
wewould stretch out
youwould stretch out
theywould stretch out

Perfect

Iwould have stretched out
youwould have stretched out
he;she;itwould have stretched out
wewould have stretched out
youwould have stretched out
theywould have stretched out

Imperative

youstretch out
weLet's stretch out
youstretch out

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam stretching out
youare stretching out
he;she;itis stretching out
weare stretching out
youare stretching out
theyare stretching out

Perfect

Ihave been stretching out
youhave been stretching out
he;she;ithas been stretching out
wehave been stretching out
youhave been stretching out
theyhave been stretching out

Past

Iwas stretching out
youwere stretching out
he;she;itwas stretching out
wewere stretching out
youwere stretching out
theywere stretching out

Pluperfect

Ihad been stretching out
youhad been stretching out
he;she;ithad been stretching out
wehad been stretching out
youhad been stretching out
theyhad been stretching out

Future

Iwill be stretching out
youwill be stretching out
he;she;itwill be stretching out
wewill be stretching out
youwill be stretching out
theywill be stretching out

Future Perfect

Iwill have been stretching out
youwill have been stretching out
he;she;itwill have been stretching out
wewill have been stretching out
youwill have been stretching out
theywill have been stretching out

Conditional

Present

Iwould be stretching out
youwould be stretching out
he;she;itwould be stretching out
wewould be stretching out
youwould be stretching out
theywould be stretching out

Perfect

Iwould have been stretching out
youwould have been stretching out
he;she;itwould have been stretching out
wewould have been stretching out
youwould have been stretching out
theywould have been stretching out

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'stretch'

abash, abolish, abroach, accomplish, accroach, address, admix, admonish, ado, adpress, affamish, affix, alloo, amass, ambush, anguish, annex, appeach, appears, approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'stretch'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to make longer
elongate, extend, lengthen, produce, protract

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

From Middle English strecchen, from Old English streċċan (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark. See: Middle English 'strecchen', Dutch 'strekken', German, old spelling 'strecken', Danish 'strække', Swedish 'sträcka', Albanian 'shtriqem'.

Verbs referencing "stretch"

Esperanto streĉi, Albanian shtriqem, Danish strække, Dutch stretchen.

Sample Sentences

  • I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
  • The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
  • The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken. [1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:]
  • First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
  • I always stretch my muscles before exercising.
  • When the cat woke up, it yawned and stretched.
  • The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
  • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires. [1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:]
  • Three varieties of wild rice, O. rufipogon, O. officinalis and O. meyeriana, have been found in China, in a zone stretching from Hainan to Taiwan and from Northern Kwangsi to Ching-hung¹ on the Upper Mekong in Yunnan. [1984, Science and Civilization in China, volume 6, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 483:]
  • I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
  • To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
  • To say he's been to this park a million times is stretching the numbers. The true number is around 30 or 40.
  • Her bizarre explanation really stretches credulity.
  • By the fullest exploitation of modern signalling, multiple-unit operation and flying and burrowing junctions the S.R. has greatly increased the capacity of its tracks to carry this growing load of peak-hour passengers, but that capacity is now stretched to the limit. [1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:]
  • Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage. [2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3-3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:]
  • As I sat in the waiting room, the minutes stretched into hours.
  • Unless we rekindle our communication skills, the 2020s "loneliness epidemic" could stretch into a "solitary century." [2025 December 9, Rachel Konrad and Matt Abrahams, “Why Young People Are Struggling to Communicate”, in TIME:]
  • The ship stretched to the eastward.
  • Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […] [2019, B. Webb et al., “Simulation of grating compressor misalignment tolerances and mitigation strategies for chirped-pulse–amplification systems of varying bandwidths and beam sizes”, in Applied Optics, volume 58, number 2, pages 234-243:]
  • a man apt to stretch in his report of facts