Stretching

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stretch.

2. (a. & n.) from Stretch.

Thesaurus Entries

aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, breaking point, burlesque, caricature, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, doziness, dropsy, drowsiness, edema, elongation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extension, extravagance, extreme, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gassiness, grandiloquence, heaviness, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, languor, lengthening, lethargy, magnification, meteorism, oscitancy, oscitation, overdistension, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overexpansion, overextension, overkill, overstatement, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pandiculation, prodigality, production, profuseness, prolongation, protraction, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, sensationalism, sleepiness, snapping point, somnolence, somnolency, strain, straining, stretch, stringing out, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, tension, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, windiness, yawning