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# stretchedst

«stretchedst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you stretched** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you stretched

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«stretchedst» means «you stretched», a form of «stretch»: To make something longer or wider by pulling it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stretchedst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou stretchedst» = «you stretched».

### examples

- Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand — the earth swallowed them. (Torah EXO.15.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stretchedst/#x1)

### tests

ending -st (stem «stretched», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Thou stretchedst out Thy right hand — the earth swallowed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.428/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stretchedst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stretchedst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.