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English Dictionary: lengthened by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lengthen \Length"en\ (-'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lengthened}
      (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lengthening} (-'n*[icr]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.
  
               What if I please to lengthen out his date. --Dryden.
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