- elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged - drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
Antonym: short (indirect, via long)
- elongate, elongated - having notably more length than width; being long and slender; "an elongate tail tapering to a point"; "the old man's gaunt and elongated frame"
Antonym: short (indirect, via long)
- elongate, stretch - make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric"
--1 is one way to lengthen
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun elongation1, noun elongation2, noun elongation3
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