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Definition of Lengthen
1. Verb. Make longer. "They lengthen the cape "; "Lengthen this skirt, please"
Specialized synonyms: Draw Out, Extend, Prolong, Protract, Elongate, Stretch
Antonyms: Shorten
2. Verb. Become long or longer. "In Spring, the days lengthen"
Definition of Lengthen
1. 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.
2. v. i. To become longer.
Definition of Lengthen
1. Verb. (transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To become longer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lengthen
1. to make or become longer [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lengthen
Literary usage of Lengthen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"The following keep the final short vowel in the future, but lengthen it in one or
... Most of the verbs refusing to lengthen a final short vowel have verb- ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"lengthen THE SCHOOL YEAR. 41 In the hey-day of college and university expansion \ve
have all too large a college population to find proper employment during ..."
3. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... unconfined places that tend to lengthen life and make it happy. JOURNAL:
HERTFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: TOST. ALBANS, THROUGH EDGEWARE, STANMORE, ..."
4. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"... divide, va To ai-tract' To allure ; invite ; draw te, va To ex-traet To draw
out of; to select, va To pro-tract' To draw out; delay ; lengthen, v. a, ..."
5. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"CHAPTER I. " There blend the ties that strengthen Our hearts in hours of grief,
The silver links that lengthen Joy's visits when most brief. ..."
6. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1837)
"... Counsel to address the Jury—Amendments of the Lords—Bill lo lengthen the time
for the Execution of Murderers—Bill to remunerate Medical Witnesses before ..."
7. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Scarce could I frame Brief answer to her passion, but replied With broken voice
and accents faltering: " I live, 't is true. I lengthen out my days "Through ..."
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