esticar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Probably borrowed from Old French estrikier (“to make longer, to stretch”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Compare Galician estricar. === Pronunciation === === Verb === esticar (first-person singular present estico, first-person singular preterite estiquei, past participle esticado) (transitive) to stretch (lengthen by pulling) Synonyms: estender, empertigar (intransitive) to stretch (to be longer, as by pulling) (colloquial, transitive) to extend Synonym: prolongar (colloquial, intransitive) to die Synonym: morrer (colloquial, reflexive) to push one's luck ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== esticar as canelas === Further reading === “esticar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “esticar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026