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A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy or on waking, often accompanied by yawning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
yawning and stretching (as when first waking up)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stretch, stretching, yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy
Etymology tree English pandiculate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English pandiculation From pandiculate + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
venyttely
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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French:
pandiculation
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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German:
Räkeln
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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German:
Strecken
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Gujarati:
અંગડાઈ
(aṅgaḍāī)
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Gujarati:
આળસ
(āḷsa)
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Hindi:
अंगड़ाई
(aṅgṛāī)
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Icelandic:
syfjuteygjur
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Icelandic:
morgunteygjur
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Italian:
pandiculazione
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Malay:
menggeliat
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Māori:
taiaroa
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Māori:
taiari
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Māori:
taieri
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Portuguese:
pandiculação
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Portuguese:
espreguiçamento
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Russian:
потягивание
(potyàghivaniye)
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Spanish:
estiramiento
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
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Urdu:
انگڑائی
(aṅgṛāī)
— stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities as when fatigued and drowsy
