Outstretched
//aʊtˈstɹɛt͡ʃt// adj, verb
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of outstretch form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Extended or stretched out.
"They ran towards each other with arms outstretched, and the credits rolled."
Adjective
- 1 fully extended especially in length wordnet
Example
More examples"As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love."
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