stretcher
🇺🇸
/ˈstretʃər/
🇬🇧
/ˈstretʃə(r)/
noun
R
A device used to move someone who is sick or injured and cannot walk. It has a long piece of fabric with handles on each side.
The injured player was placed on a stretcher and taken to the hospital.
R
A wooden frame used for stretching fabric tight, often for painting purposes.
The artist prepared the canvas by attaching it to the stretcher.
verb
R
To move someone who is sick or injured using a stretcher.
The paramedics stretchered the victim out of the wreckage.
translation
A device used to move someone who is sick or injured and cannot walk. It has a long piece of fabric with handles on each side.; A wooden frame used for stretching fabric tight, often for painting purposes.
To move someone who is sick or injured using a stretcher.
Word Forms
3rd Present
stretchers
Past
stretchered
Perfect
stretchered
Progressive
stretchering
Plural
stretchers