elongate

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - verb

make long or longer by pulling and stretching (Freq. 1)
- stretch the fabric
• Syn:
stretch
• Derivationally related forms:
stretch (for: stretch), stretcher (for: stretch), stretching (for: stretch), elongation
• Hypernyms:
lengthen
• Hyponyms:
tree, shoetree
• Cause:
stretch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

II - adjective

1. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
• Syn:
linear
• Similar to:
simple, unsubdivided
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
• Syn:
elongated
• Similar to:
long

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  elongated, linear, stretch