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To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit. They take up, one day, the most violent and stretched prerogative. Burke.

An overstretching of the truth; a lie. [Slang]

r with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. Chaucer. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him Job xxxiii. 13. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. Denham.…

To swell out; to strut. [Obs.] Chapman.

To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut. [Obs.] Bacon.

Covered with stubble. A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. Gay.

o submit; to make accountable. God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts. Locke.

To put or place under. The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut. Chapman.

To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration. Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. Coleridge.

To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. 2 Tim. iii. 14.

ation made by heathen writers. Atterbury. Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. South.

Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa (syn. Onothera fruticosa), of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.

Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion. And the truth With superstitions and traditions taint. Milton.

revent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth. She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense. Broome.

; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.

trusting; unquestioning; positive. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. Rom. ii. 2. I'm sure care 's an enemy of life. Shak.

To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine. With such altered looks, . . . All pale and speechless, he surveyed me round. Dryden.

To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story. Addison.

Sister. [Obs.] Chaucer. There are seven sustren, that serve truth ever. Piers Plowman.