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elongate

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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.

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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

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