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Type Words
Synonyms elongated


an elongate tail tapering to a point.
the old man's gaunt and elongated frame.
Type Words
Synonyms stretch
Type of lengthen
Has types tree, shoetree
Derivation elongation
Type Words
Synonyms linear

Examples of elongate

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Others are shorter but aren't afraid of three-inch heels to elongate their look.
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They were believed to have longevity and could elongate the life of the consumer.
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This cannot only elongate the duration of your cold, but even make you sicker.
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The blooms open as early as February and elongate as they grow over several weeks.
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If the fold pattern is circular or elongate circular the structure is a basin.
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A jacket or shirt with trimmer sleeves and higher armholes helps to elongate.
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Take another five breaths here, feeling the feet, feeling the spine elongate.
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With age, faces elongate and eyes, nose and jaws move relative to each other.
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Adelospondyli is an order of elongate, presumably aquatic, Carboniferousamphibians.
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More examples
  • Make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric"
  • Linear: (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
  • 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"
  • (elongated) 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"
  • (elongated) extensive in length; stretched
  • (Elongated) Drawn out in length.
  • (Elongated) means that a prism has been joined to the base of the solid in question or between the bases of the solids in question. A rhombicuboctahedron would be an elongated square orthobicupola.
  • An increase of the vertical diameter of a flexible pipe.
  • The mouth appears to be longer than usual in the horizontal plane.