- 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)
- lengthen - make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please"
--1 is one way to increase
Antonyms: shorten
Sample sentence:
They lengthen the cape
- lengthen - become long or longer; "In Spring, the days lengthen"
--2 is one way to grow
Antonyms: shorten
Sample sentence:
Something ----s