elongate

Speech parts

1. elongate - Adjective

2. elongate - Verb

3. elongate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

To remove further off.

To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

linear stretch elongated crane elliptic long increase longer continue extended grow draw expand extend pull
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Antonyms

pollard lop bobtail short cut prune
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Hypernyms

lengthen

Hyponyms

shoetree

Related terms

elongation

Phrases with the word

least elongate most elongate

Derivatives

elongated elongating

Anagrams

Eagleton

Examples

The essential thing is to elongate the women and especially to make them slim. After that it just remains to enlarge their jewels. They are ravished. Kees van Dongen

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love. Lily King

stretch the fabric Source: Internet

an elongate tail tapering to a point Source: Internet

the old man's gaunt and elongated frame Source: Internet

If a person is the rabbi or of the congregation, he should not elongate his prayer so as not to cause excessive delay to the worshipers. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

elong elongase elongasome elongate leaf elongate tigerfish elongated