lengthened

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lengthened
    adj 1: drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated
           Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this
           year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate
           larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
           [syn: {elongated}, {extended}, {lengthened}, {prolonged}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lengthen \Length"en\ (-'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lengthened}
   (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lengthening} (-'n*[i^]ng).]
   To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration;
   as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; --
   sometimes followed by out.
   [1913 Webster]

         What if I please to lengthen out his date. --Dryden.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "lengthened":
      dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drawn-out, elongated, extended,
      interminable, languishing, lasting, lingering, long,
      long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending,
      long-winded, marathon, overlong, prolongated, prolonged,
      protracted, pulled, spun out, spun-out, straggling, strained,
      stretched, stretched out, stretched-out, strung out, taut, tense,
      tight

    

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