stretch – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of stretch

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Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to stretch
Participle: stretched
Gerund: stretching

Cognates

See the 4 cognates of stretch

Indicative

Present

Istretch
youstretch
he;she;itstretches
westretch
youstretch
theystretch

Perfect

Ihave stretched
youhave stretched
he;she;ithas stretched
wehave stretched
youhave stretched
theyhave stretched

Past

Istretched
youstretched
he;she;itstretched
westretched
youstretched
theystretched

Pluperfect

Ihad stretched
youhad stretched
he;she;ithad stretched
wehad stretched
youhad stretched
theyhad stretched

Future

Iwill stretch
youwill stretch
he;she;itwill stretch
wewill stretch
youwill stretch
theywill stretch

Future Perfect

Iwill have stretched
youwill have stretched
he;she;itwill have stretched
wewill have stretched
youwill have stretched
theywill have stretched

Subjunctive

Present

Istretch
youstretch
he;she;itstretch
westretch
youstretch
theystretch

Perfect

Ihave stretched
youhave stretched
he;she;ithave stretched
wehave stretched
youhave stretched
theyhave stretched

Imperfect

Istretched
youstretched
he;she;itstretched
westretched
youstretched
theystretched

Pluperfect

Ihad stretched
youhad stretched
he;she;ithad stretched
wehad stretched
youhad stretched
theyhad stretched

Conditional

Present

Iwould stretch
youwould stretch
he;she;itwould stretch
wewould stretch
youwould stretch
theywould stretch

Perfect

Iwould have stretched
youwould have stretched
he;she;itwould have stretched
wewould have stretched
youwould have stretched
theywould have stretched

Imperative

youstretch
weLet's stretch
youstretch

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam stretching
youare stretching
he;she;itis stretching
weare stretching
youare stretching
theyare stretching

Perfect

Ihave been stretching
youhave been stretching
he;she;ithas been stretching
wehave been stretching
youhave been stretching
theyhave been stretching

Past

Iwas stretching
youwere stretching
he;she;itwas stretching
wewere stretching
youwere stretching
theywere stretching

Pluperfect

Ihad been stretching
youhad been stretching
he;she;ithad been stretching
wehad been stretching
youhad been stretching
theyhad been stretching

Future

Iwill be stretching
youwill be stretching
he;she;itwill be stretching
wewill be stretching
youwill be stretching
theywill be stretching

Future Perfect

Iwill have been stretching
youwill have been stretching
he;she;itwill have been stretching
wewill have been stretching
youwill have been stretching
theywill have been stretching

Conditional

Present

Iwould be stretching
youwould be stretching
he;she;itwould be stretching
wewould be stretching
youwould be stretching
theywould be stretching

Perfect

Iwould have been stretching
youwould have been stretching
he;she;itwould have been stretching
wewould have been stretching
youwould have been stretching
theywould have been stretching

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'stretch'

abash, abolish, abroach, accomplish, accroach, address, admix, admonish, ado, adpress, affamish, affix, alloo, amass, ambush, anguish, annex, appeach, appears, approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'stretch'

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to make longer
elongate, extend, lengthen, produce, protract

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

From Middle English strecchen, from Old English streċċan (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark. See: Middle English 'strecchen', Dutch 'strekken', German, old spelling 'strecken', Danish 'strække', Swedish 'sträcka', Albanian 'shtriqem'.

Verbs referencing "stretch"

Esperanto streĉi, Albanian shtriqem, Danish strække, Dutch stretchen.

Sample Sentences

  • I stretched the rubber band until it almost broke.
  • The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
  • The inner membrane […] because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken. [1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:]
  • First, stretch the skin over the frame of the drum.
  • I always stretch my muscles before exercising.
  • When the cat woke up, it yawned and stretched.
  • The beach stretches from Cresswell to Amble.
  • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires. [1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:]
  • Three varieties of wild rice, O. rufipogon, O. officinalis and O. meyeriana, have been found in China, in a zone stretching from Hainan to Taiwan and from Northern Kwangsi to Ching-hung¹ on the Upper Mekong in Yunnan. [1984, Science and Civilization in China, volume 6, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 483:]
  • I managed to stretch my coffee supply a few more days.
  • To say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.
  • To say he's been to this park a million times is stretching the numbers. The true number is around 30 or 40.
  • Her bizarre explanation really stretches credulity.
  • By the fullest exploitation of modern signalling, multiple-unit operation and flying and burrowing junctions the S.R. has greatly increased the capacity of its tracks to carry this growing load of peak-hour passengers, but that capacity is now stretched to the limit. [1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The problem of the peak”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:]
  • Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage. [2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3-3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:]
  • As I sat in the waiting room, the minutes stretched into hours.
  • Unless we rekindle our communication skills, the 2020s "loneliness epidemic" could stretch into a "solitary century." [2025 December 9, Rachel Konrad and Matt Abrahams, “Why Young People Are Struggling to Communicate”, in TIME:]
  • The ship stretched to the eastward.
  • Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […] [2019, B. Webb et al., “Simulation of grating compressor misalignment tolerances and mitigation strategies for chirped-pulse–amplification systems of varying bandwidths and beam sizes”, in Applied Optics, volume 58, number 2, pages 234-243:]
  • a man apt to stretch in his report of facts