Definition of "stretched" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of stretch. (verb)

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• "The latest of six Toyodas to run the company since it was established in 1937, Akio outlined bold, specific steps to reverse what he described as a stretched expansion that had weakened Toyota's traditional strengths."
• "“Somebody or something just takes him away, and there’s nothing—” the word stretched into a moan “—nothing we can do.”"
• "The men around me were a horror: walking corpses of skin stretched tight over bone; sunken eyes and cheeks making their faces show too much of the skull beneath."