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Verb: elongate  i'lónggeyt
  1. Make long or longer by pulling and stretching
    - stretch
Adjective: elongate  i'lónggeyt
  1. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
    - linear
     
  2. Having notably more length than width; being long and slender
    "an elongate tail tapering to a point"
    - elongated

Derived forms: elongated, elongates, elongating

See also: elongation, long, simple, unsubdivided

Type of: lengthen