Outstretched

//aʊtˈstɹɛt͡ʃt// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of outstretch form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Extended or stretched out.

    "They ran towards each other with arms outstretched, and the credits rolled."

Adjective
  1. 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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