upstretched

[uhp-strecht]

adjective

stretched upward, as the arms.

Origin of upstretched

First recorded in 1555–65; up- + stretch + -ed²

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Examples from the Web for upstretched

Historical Examples of upstretched

I could see her upstretched arms holding her children out of the water.
The Flood
Emile Zola
The kiss deepened between them; his head bent, hers upstretched.
Beggars on Horseback
F. Tennyson Jesse
At last the upstretched feelers were whipping back and forth almost too swiftly for the eye to follow.
Astounding Stories, April, 1931
Various
The pigskin flew away from him at least two feet above Wirts upstretched hands and went rolling and bobbing toward the goal line.
Center Rush Rowland
Ralph Henry Barbour
Adam with upstretched arms appeals to God, and the curtain falls.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, No. 97, January, 1876
Various

British Dictionary definitions for upstretched

upstretched

adjective

(esp of the arms) stretched or raised up

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