Stretch and Try

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Stretch

Stretch verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Usage example: your whining is stretching my patience to the limit
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Try and stretch are semantically related In some cases you can use "Try" instead the word "Stretch" as a verb or a noun.
Nearby Words: stretched, stretching, stretchy, stretcher

Try

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Usage example: you're trying my patience
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Stretch and try are semantically related in tax topic. Sometimes you can use "Stretch" instead the word "Try" as a verb or a noun.
Nearby Words: tried, trying

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How words are described

good good stretch good try
special special stretch special try
short short stretch short try
complete complete stretch complete try
Other adjectives: infinite, single, small, entire, real, big, great, huge, decent, major, final, few, next, last, extended, southern.

Common collocations

people stretch people try people
series stretch series try series
hand stretch hand try hand
time stretch time try time
Other words: way, characters, hands, powers.

Both words in one sentence

  • Jackass Genie However, on that note, if you try to stretch these powers to far, it simply flat-out fails, and just wasted a bunch of psychic power and time to no effect.
    Source: Jackass Genie
  • Theatre / Matilda Something similar is done with "Miracle" as the children, who have been told all their lives that they're all amazingly special, approach the gates of Crunchem Hall and try to reassure themselves of that increasingly dubious claim in the first stretch of "School Song".
    Source: Theatre / Matilda
  • Narm / Advertising She doesn't try to move towards it; she just reaches for it as if she believes that she can make her arm stretch the rest of the way.
    Source: Narm / Advertising
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Try and Stretch. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/stretch/try
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