Definition of lengthen

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Lengthen (v. i.) To become longer.

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Product :: Product (v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.
Eking :: Eking (v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner..
Production :: Production (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
Sackbut :: Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone..
Ectasis :: Ectasis (n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
Drawl :: Drawl (v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone..
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..
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..
Lengthen :: Lengthen (v. i.) To become longer.
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
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..
Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.
Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune..
Lengthening :: Lengthening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lengthe.
Length :: Length (v. t.) To lengthen.
Great :: Great (superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval..
Elongation :: Elongation (n.) The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension..
Lengthen :: Lengthen (v. t.) 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..
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