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Elongate is defined as to grow or stretch longer, or make something longer.
(verb)- When you use Photoshop to make a picture longer than it is wide, this is an example of when you elongate the picture.
- When you stretch out a music note you are signing, this is an example of when youelongate.
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See elongate in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb, intransitive verb elongated, elongating
to make or become longer; stretch
Origin: < LL elongatus, pp. of elongare, to prolong < L e-, out + longus, long
adjective
- lengthened; stretched
- Bot. long and narrow: said as of certain leaves
See elongate in American Heritage Dictionary 4
tr. & intr.v. e·lon·gat·ed, e·lon·gat·ing, e·lon·gates
To make or grow longer.
adjective or elongated- Made longer; extended.
- Having more length than width; slender.
Origin:
Origin: Late Latin ēlongāre, ēlongāt-; see eloign
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