Stress
Stretch
Stretch verb - To add to the interest of by including made-up details.
Usage example: it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version
Stress and stretch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Stress" instead the word "Stretch" as a verb or a noun.
How words are described
| considerable | considerable stress | considerable stretch |
| big | big stress | big stretch |
| great | great stress | great stretch |
| serious | serious stress | serious stretch |
| Other adjectives: enormous, little, major, prolonged. | ||
Common collocations
Cite this Source
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