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Elongated Common

Elongated has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

simple past tense and past participle of elongate

"After being stretched for hours, the dough was finally elongated into a long rope before baking."

Adjective
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"

2

having notably more length than width; being long and slender

"an elongate tail tapering to a point"

"the old man's gaunt and elongated frame"

3

extensive in length

"The elongated shoreline of the bay stretched for miles along the rugged coast."

Example Sentences
"Picasso's elongated Don Quixote" adjective
"lengthened skirts are fashionable this year" adjective
"the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes" adjective
"a prolonged black line across the page" adjective
"an elongate tail tapering to a point" adjective
"the old man's gaunt and elongated frame" adjective
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