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outstretched
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outstretched
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outstretched hand (=stretched out towards someone or something)
▪ She took her father's outstretched hand and began to walk from the room.
outstretched
▪ The eagle descended on outstretched wings.
with outstretched arms
▪ Manuel came forward with outstretched arms to welcome Magda.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
arm
▪ In the easier version for younger children, they are freed by touching their outstretched arms.
▪ Failing all this, raising and lowering your outstretched arms at your side is an accepted international distress signal.
▪ With outstretched arm he dropped the ball in the circle.
▪ The eagle swoops towards the goats with outstretched arms.
▪ She brought her outstretched arms down, clasped her hands together.
▪ Then, sliding carefully out from under his outstretched arm, she slipped out of bed.
▪ Who's this larger-than-life character with the outstretched arms, the tenor who sings Nessun Dorma like a dream?
▪ Lie on your right side with head resting on your outstretched arm.
finger
▪ With an outstretched finger, she traced the lines of Pascoe's sleeping face.
▪ Closer, there were her outstretched fingers to study as they burrowed through the sand.
hand
▪ Victorine balanced the cake tin on the palm of her outstretched hand and frowned at it.
▪ She stopped instantly, the pot in her outstretched hands.
▪ She spun round and brought one heel down with tremendous force on to his outstretched hand.
▪ She smiled hesitantly, ignored the outstretched hands, and stepped into Silvio's office.
▪ Isaac's outstretched hands clawed at the muddy earth, then they relaxed.
▪ Her fingers lay slender and perfect, passive across his outstretched hand.
▪ Then he reached out, grasped Mandy's outstretched hand and pulled her back to safe, solid ground.
▪ The guests moved in with outstretched hands.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The birds rose with outstretched wings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His outstretched foot was being singed.
▪ It's like an Electric Ballroom gig: rowdy, bawdy, hands outstretched, fingers touching, bodies crushing.
▪ It fell forwards and I managed to catch it on my outstretched forearm.
▪ Sit on the floor with legs outstretched and apart.
▪ Sitting with legs outstretched, squeeze the legs together 30 times, holding each squeeze for 1 second.
▪ Sitting with legs outstretched, take hold of your calves with both hands and squeeze them together.
▪ Start as before with arms outstretched, then gently curve the body sideways.
▪ We had to edge sideways along with our arms outstretched against the opposite wall for support.
Wiktionary
outstretched

  1. extended or stretched out v

  2. (en-past of: outstretch)

WordNet
outstretched

adj. fully extended especially in length; "a kitten with one paw outstretched"

Usage examples of "outstretched".

With a scream of joy Barnacle darted under his outstretched arm, rushed across the room and hurled himself at the drawn curtains.

Cabe Bedlam, arms outstretched, a small object in his left hand, looking all the world like his grandfather.

Jory and Melodic had forgotten they might be observed and became so involved in what they were doing that they danced on and on, wildly passionate, entranced with each other, until Melodic ran to leap into his outstretched arms.

Four seconds of soaring terror, his arms outstretched like Superman, or Christ, and then perhaps a microsecond of unimaginable pain.

Low retaining walls curved back into the sloping hillside like arms outstretched by the arched opening in their center: the entrance to what the Oltenians called a Molt nursery cave.

To his right is a vertiginous panorama, the huge rift valley with its ancient city of the dead outstretched before him.

She stopped as though petrified, holding a tray in her outstretched hands and listened to everything her brother said about the punishment inflicted upon him.

As Poly spoke the child raised one golden-brown hand, looking wonderingly at the five outstretched fingers.

The problemist nodded a grim acquiescence, and took the outstretched hand of Norris.

I seized the outstretched hand and drew him forward, then reclosed the door and stood before him a moment in doubt.

Before Abbess Hilda had time to respond, questioning why a young Irish religieuse should be worthy to be asked to make her presence known to them, the Bishop Colman had risen from his chair and had taken a stride towards the girl with an outstretched hand of welcome.

They prostrated themselves upon the steps of the dais, and then kneeled before Anne in a reverential attitude, with hands outstretched, the palms open.

And as Routh recreated in himself the sense of a whole society with cruel hand outstretched and eager to pull the plug, terrifying hints of hidden and dangerous volitions rose up through his weak anger.

Before they straightened into the main street, El Sangre had shoved his nose past the outstretched head of the gray.

Cullen spent the morning running up and down the rows of corn, his arms outstretched, scaring up droves of crows.