elongate

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To make or grow longer.
  2. adjective Made longer; extended.
  3. adjective Having more length than width; slender.

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  • The man's hands seemed to elongate, the fingers stretching to an impossible length. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • The legs stiffen, elongate, and swell, expanding both inner and outer labia. —  open source sex
  • As the muscles strengthen and elongate, your knee joints will be under less pressure and your pain will begin to subside. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Stems are leafy, elongate, ascending, varying in length from 1 to 3 feet The leaf-sheaths are long, smooth, loose, with naked margins. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • They were very close last year, and I expected to find they had crossed each other at this apparition, but to my surprise I find they have become a fair round disc, which my highest powers will not elongate--in fact, a single star_! —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Late Latin ēlongāre, ēlongāt-; see eloign.

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  1. from Late Latin elongatus, past participle of elongare: see elong.
  2. from Late Latin elongatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/əˈlɔŋgeɪt/
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