Definition of lengthen

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Lengthen (v. i.) To become longer.

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Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail..
Length :: Length (v. t.) To lengthen.
Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war..
Elongate :: Elongate (a.) To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line..
Lengthened :: Lengthened (imp. & p. p.) of Lengthe.
Paragogical :: Paragogical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Enlengthen :: Enlengthen (v. t.) To lengthen.
Prolongation :: Prolongation (n.) The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.
Use :: Use (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune..
Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
Guna :: Guna (n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages..
Great :: Great (superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval..
Prolong :: Prolong (a.) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days..
Eking :: Eking (v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
Addition :: Addition (n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
Lengthening :: Lengthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lengthe.
Product :: Product (v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.
Drawl :: Drawl (v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone..
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