lengthening

Speech parts

1. lengthening - Noun

2. lengthening - Verb

Meaning

of Lengthen

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

prolongation perpetuation protraction development production growth increase increasing growing expansion extension continuing extend spreading stretch

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Antonyms

period stage phase contraction abbreviation capsule

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Hypernyms

continuation continuance

Phrases with the word

telomere lengthening enzyme lengthening piece

Examples

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. Oliver Goldsmith

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. Charles Spurgeon

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life. Fatimah

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. Seneca

When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire At either curvèd point, - what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. John Dryden

Close letter words and terms

lengthened lengthened in the direction of a polar diameter lengthener lengthening piece lengthful lengthier