End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Stretched out is an antonym for end.
Stretched out
Both terms in one sentence
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Conversations that should take at least ten minutes in real life were often stretched out for days on end, just so the screenwriters would have time to wring out plotlines.
Source: Series / Passions -
The same danger, just stretched out over a longer period of time, is posed to her parents but, much like Odysseus, Chihiro saves them in the end.
Source: Anime / Spirited Away -
In the end, a helicopter rescue, a simple blanket stretched out to help catch her fail, and she decides she'd rather die from falling than to let anyone know she pooped.
Source: Manga / Sabagebu!
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Stretched out and End. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/stretched_out
End & Stretched out. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/stretched_out>.
Stretched out or End. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/stretched_out.
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