Hyperextend

Quick meaning: Hyperextend is a verb meaning (medicine, transitive) To extend a joint beyond its normal position in a way that stresses the ligaments, often causing injury.

Meaning

(medicine, transitive) To extend a joint beyond its normal position in a way that stresses the ligaments, often causing injury.

Example Sentences

DELGADO OUT OF LINEUP The day after hyperextending his left knee as he tried to catch a foul ball, Carlos Delgado was held out of the starting lineup.

Every time you push off and hyperextend the toe, which happens when doing something as simple as taking a step or more strenuous like cutting and jumping, the MTP joint is involved.

The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques and African steps is familiar, but the extent to which Mr. Rhoden packs — and overpacks — phrases, cultivates warp-speed delivery and hyperextends every possible hip jut and arabesque is, thank goodness, something special to Complexions.

Word Forms

• hyperextends
• hyperextending
• hyperextended

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overextend, hyperstretch, overstretch, hyperflex, extensify, hyperadduct.

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