astretch

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. Stretched out, extended. not-comparable
    — A thing half dead, with weary arms astretch / For anything to cling to
  2. Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties). not-comparable
    — 1833, Hamlet Wood, The Negro: An Historical Poem […] describing the unchristian and wicked principle and practices of slavery, Burslem, UK: for the author, p. 41, […] with attentive gaze, As winds dispelled the dark’ning haze, My eyes astretch—and all my mind afloat, To learn what sort of beings filled the boat;

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From a- + stretch.
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