lengthened Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb make longer
lengthen.
- Lengthen this skirt, please
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verb become long or longer
lengthen.
- In Spring, the days lengthen
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adjective satellite drawn out or made longer spatially
extended; prolonged; elongated.
- 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
