Elongate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make or grow longer.
  • adj. Made longer; extended.
  • adj. Having more length than width; slender.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. lengthened, extended.
  • adj. slender.
  • v. To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch.
  • v. To remove further off.
  • verb-intransitive. To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
  • adj. Drawn out at length; elongated.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make long or longer; lengthen; extend, stretch, or draw out in length: as, to elongate a rope by splicing.
  • To remove further off.
  • To recede; move to a greater distance; particularly, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
  • Lengthened; extended or produced; attenuated; specifically, in zoology and botany, disproportionately or comparatively long or extended: as, a worm has an elongate body; a proboscis is an elongate snout; elongate antennæ are about as long as the body of an insect; elongate elytra extend beyond the abdomen; an elongate flower-stem.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make long or longer by pulling and stretching
  • adj. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
  • adj. having notably more length than width; being long and slender
    • Equivalent
    unsubdivided    simple    long   
    Verb Form
    elongated    elongates    elongating   
    Form
    elongated    elongating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lengthen    extend    stretch    elongated    lengthened   
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