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OUTSTRETCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fully extended especially in length
Example:
a kitten with one paw outstretched
Classified under:
Similar:
extended (fully extended or stretched forth)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb outstretch
Context examples:
The butler had hardly closed the door behind him when Lady Hilda was down on her knees at Holmes’s feet, her hands outstretched, her beautiful face upturned and wet with her tears.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Tell me, Aylward, said Alleyne earnestly, with his hands outstretched to keep the pair asunder, what is the cause of quarrel, that we may see whether honorable settlement may not be arrived at?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There he was, sitting with a newly opened envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the outstretched palm of the other one.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a cold-bloodedness in the act which wrung a groan from Arthur; when she advanced to him with outstretched arms and a wanton smile he fell back and hid his face in his hands.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We know that while with the right hand he takes our fifty thousand crowns for the holding of the passes open, he hath his left outstretched to Henry of Trastamare, or to the King of France, all ready to take as many more for the keeping them closed.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was leaning far back in the red leather chair, his legs outstretched, a long, black cigar projecting at an angle from his mouth.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She held out her white, slim hand to him, but as he bent his lips over it she whisked away and was gone, leaving in his outstretched hand the very green veil for which poor Peter Terlake had craved in vain.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There’s a deed of violence indicated in that fellow’s round shoulders and outstretched neck.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Round the corner of the narrow street there came rushing a brace of whining dogs with tails tucked under their legs, and after them a white-faced burgher, with outstretched hands and wide-spread fingers, his hair all abristle and his eyes glinting back from one shoulder to the other, as though some great terror were at his very heels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
