Astretch
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Stretched out, extended. not-comparable
"A thing half dead, with weary arms astretch / For anything to cling to"
- 2 Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties). not-comparable
"1833, Hamlet Wood, The Negro: An Historical Poem […] describing the unchristian and wicked principle and practices of slavery, Burslem, UK: for the author, p. 41, […] with attentive gaze, As winds dispelled the dark’ning haze, My eyes astretch—and all my mind afloat, To learn what sort of beings filled the boat;"
Example
More examples"A thing half dead, with weary arms astretch / For anything to cling to"
Etymology
From a- + stretch.
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