bestretched
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Stretched out or across; extended.
Example Sentences
- "A passer-by, who wished to try the wit Of the three gazers, by a lucky hit, Thought of a question, took each man aside, As each his eyes and mouth bestretched so wide, That had they frozen stiff, as well they might, […]"
- "It was impossible to exist in a dressed-up state after ten o'clock in the morning, and occasionally opened doors afforded brief glimpses of indefinite supplies of floor-bestretched beauty not adorned too much."
- "Australian beef and plates, the remnant of our sailors' last feed before they turned into their sail-covered oar-bestretched tent."
Etymology
From *bestretch + -ed; or from be- + stretched.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more bestretched (comparative)
most bestretched (superlative)