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outstretched

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1. outstretched - Adjective

2. outstretched - Verb

3. outstretched - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

fully extended especially in length

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For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races To a goal no foot can reach, For reckless leaps into darkness With hands outstretched to a star, There is jubilation in Heaven Where the great dead poets are. Joyce Kilmer

Adela's outstretched slipper shook slightly and shone like a snake's tongue. Bruno Schulz

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south. Kit Williams

It fetches crops from the rich earth, It's a good beast biting the ground. It must have its knife and its board And its food right under its thigh. It goes unwillingly through stones, It skins the field with leg outstretched. Iolo Goch

He comes, and his face is sad and mild, With thorns his head is crowned; There are great bleeding wounds in his feet, And in each hand a wound. How can I tell, who am a fool, If this be Christ or no? Those bleeding hands outstretched to me! Those eyes that love me so! Joyce Kilmer

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees. Miranda July

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