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elongateverb to make longerin his paintings the artist elongated the bodies of angels to give them a spiritual quality drag (out), draw out, extend, lengthen, outstretch, prolong, protract, stretch amplify, enlarge, expand, increaseattenuate, thin abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut, cut back, shorten decrease, diminish, lessen, reducethicken of great extent from end to endthe giraffe's elongate neck is thought to be the result of natural selection extended, king-size(or king-sized), lengthy, long extensive, far-reaching, longish, outstretchedoblong, rectangularbig, biggish, considerable, hefty, hulking, jumbo, large, largish, overscale(or overscaled), oversize(or oversized), sizable(or sizeable), substantial, super brief, curt, short, shortish abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, diminished, shortenedbitty, diminutive, little, miniature, minute, puny, small, smallish, teeny, tiny, undersized(also undersize), wee in 1578 |