Definition of lengthen

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Lengthen (v. i.) To become longer.

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Protractive :: Protractive (a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
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..
Length :: Length (v. t.) To lengthen.
Prolongation :: Prolongation (n.) The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.
Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Elongation :: Elongation (n.) The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension..
Elong :: Elong (v. t.) To lengthen out; to prolong.
Ectasis :: Ectasis (n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
Augment :: Augment (n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs..
Addition :: Addition (n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
Elongation :: Elongation (n.) That which lengthens out; continuation.
Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
Product :: Product (v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Production :: Production (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
Eking :: Eking (v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..
Drawl :: Drawl (n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance..
Lengthening :: Lengthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lengthe.
Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner..
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