Definition of "outstretched" []

• Extended or stretched out (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of outstretch. (verb)

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• "With a quick catch and lift, he passed Michael up and into unseen hands outstretched from the iron wall of the ship, and paddled ahead to an open cargo port."
• "For example, five in Russian is piat, and the word for outstretched hand is piast."
• "You can buy a Japanese rescue-mecha: it's 10m wide with its arms fully outstretched, is powered by an onboard water-cooled three cylinder direct injection diesel engine, has a maximum speed of 3Km/h, and carries seven 680,000-pixel CCD cameras with a separate monitor for each camera."