Lengthening: alternatives and connections

To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

To lengthen out; to prolong.

To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

To lengthen.

To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or in…

Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a…

To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggrav…

To lengthen.

To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed b…

of Lengthen

Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.

To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.

To lengthen out; to extend.

To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.

To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.

Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.

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 th…