elongate
Use Elongate in a sentence
e·lon·gate
[ih-lawng-geyt, ih-long-, ee-lawng-geyt, ee-long-] verb, e·lon·gat·ed, e·lon·gat·ing, adjective 
geɪt, ɪˈlɒŋ-, ˈi verb (used with object)
1.
to draw out to greater length; lengthen; extend.
verb (used without object)
2.
to increase in length.
adjective Also, e·lon·gat·ed.
3.
extended; lengthened.
4.
long and thin.
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elongate (ˈiːlɒŋɡeɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to make or become longer; stretch |
| —adj | |
| 2. | long and narrow; slender: elongate leaves |
| 3. | lengthened or tapered |
| [C16: from Late Latin ēlongāre to keep at a distance, from ē- away + Latin longē (adv) far, but also later: to lengthen, as if from ē- + Latin longus (adj) long] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
elongate
1530s, from L.L. elongatus, pp. of elongare (see elongation). The Fr. form, eloign, was borrowed (1530s) in the legal sense "to remove to a distance" (especially in an effort to avoid the law). Related: Elongated; elongating.
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Example sentences
They had to play with it, shift its form, and elongate its lines in order to make it distinctly theirs.
Their eyeballs elongate, and they are prone to dislocated lenses and detached retinas.
Supposedly comets were propelled into distant elongate orbits, then the orbits were circularized by stellar perturbations.
As the hemispheres extend backward these sinuses elongate by incorporating the more caudal loops of the plexus.
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