estireganyar
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estireganyar (first-person singular present estireganyo, first-person singular preterite estireganyí, past participle estireganyat)
- (transitive) to stretch out of shape
- (transitive, figurative) to deform, to distort
- 1926, Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, Caceres a l'Àfrica tropical:
- Naturalment, no cal estireganyar aquests exemples fins a pensar-se que hom pot dormir en país de lleons com en terra de conills.
- Naturally, one shouldn't overextend those examples to the point of thinking that one can sleep in lion country as one would among rabbits.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to lose one's shape (due to stretching)
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- “estireganyar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.