To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
To arrive at a particular destination.
To stretch out the hand.
To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
To make contact with.
To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
To strike or touch.
To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
The act of stretching or extending; extension.
A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
An extended portion or area of land or water.
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
The distance traversed between tacks.
The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
To sense vividly or strongly; to make one's own in thought or experience.
To become aware of (a fact or situation, especially of something that has been true for a long time).
To cause to seem real to other people.
To turn an abstract linguistic object into actual language, especially said of a phoneme's conversion into speech sound.
To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into reality; to bring into real existence
To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get
To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, such as shares, bonds, etc.