elongate
English
Derived terms
- elongate carpet shark
- elongate glassy perchlet
- elongate bitterling
- elongately
Translations
lengthened
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Verb
elongate (third-person singular simple present elongates, present participle elongating, simple past and past participle elongated)
- To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
- To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
- (obsolete) To remove further off.
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Translations
to make long
Latin
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