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upstretched

/uhp-strecht/US // ʌpˈstrɛtʃt //UK // (ʌpˈstrɛtʃt) //

伸展的,伸手不见五指,伸手,伸长

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : stretched upward, as the arms.

Examples

  • At last the upstretched feelers were whipping back and forth almost too swiftly for the eye to follow.

  • The kiss deepened between them; his head bent, hers upstretched.

  • The ball bounded away from an upstretched hand and Carmine fell on it at the twenty-two yards.

  • The sandbag whistled as it cut down between the upstretched arms, and the watchman dropped as if hit by lightning.

  • With one hand he reached down and took hers, eagerly upstretched, drawing her to the rock on which he stood.