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Synonyms:
Expand, elongate, amplify, broaden, widen, enlarge, increase, augment, amplify, prolong, protract, continue, perpetuate, sustain, swell, inflate, dilate, bloat
To grow in length – cannabis stretches from three inches (or 7.5 centimeters) to a foot (or 0.3 meters) when flowering is induced.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
elongate (verb)transitive verb
intransitive verb
to extend the length of to grow in length
1.
stretched out
2.
- slender
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
elongate (adjective)of great extent from end to end
SYNONYMS:
elongate ( elongated), extended, king-size ( king-sized), lengthyRELATED WORDS:
extensive, far-reaching, longish, outstretched; oblong, rectangular; big, biggish, considerable, hefty, hulking, jumbo, large, largish, overscale ( overscaled), oversize ( oversized), sizable ( sizeable), substantial, superNEAR ANTONYMS:
abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, diminished, shortened; bitty, diminutive, little, miniature, minute, puny, small, smallish, teeny, tiny, undersized ( undersize), weeto make longer
SYNONYMS:
drag (out), draw out, elongate, lengthen, outstretch, prolong, protract, stretchRELATED WORDS:
amplify, enlarge, expand, increase; attenuate, thinNEAR ANTONYMS:
decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce; thickenElongate (Wikipedia)
Elongation may refer to:
- Elongation (astronomy)
- Elongation (geometry)
- Elongation (plasma physics)
- Part of transcription of DNA into RNA of all types, including mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, etc.
- Part of translation (biology) of mRNA into proteins
- Elongated organisms
- Elongation (mechanics), linear deformation
Elongate (Wiktionary)
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Etymology
From Late Middle English elongat, elongate (“kept away; different or remote in nature”, adjective), borrowed from Late Latin ēlongātus (“having been stretched out, elongated; prolonged, protracted; having been kept aloof, removed”) + Middle English -at (suffix forming participles). Ēlongātus is the perfect passive participle of elongō (“to prolong, protract; to keep aloof, remove; to depart, withdraw”), from Latin ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) +
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