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the body's reset button you forget exists until something seizes mid-yawn
means To extend or pull something to its full length or beyond its usual limits, or to lengthen and tense your own muscles for relief.
from From Old English 'streccan,' meaning to extend or spread out, with relatives across the Germanic family — Dutch 'strekken' and German 'strecken' are close cousins. The whole clan likely traces back to a Proto-Germanic root suggesting stiffness or making taut, which fits perfectly: a stretch is the body deliberately courting tension to chase it away.
animal instinctdogs and cats stretch reflexively on waking, called pandiculation
yawn twinyawning and stretching share the same neural trigger
prison slanga stretch means a stint behind bars
limo lorestretch limousines were invented for touring bands in 1928
fetal stretchbabies pandiculate in the womb before they're born