Kedi, pencereden giren güneş ışığında boylu boyunca gerinerek uzanıyordu. - The cat was lying stretched out at full length in the sunlight streaming through the window.
Babam akşam yemeğinden sonra gerindi. - Dad stretched after dinner.
If something is elongated, it is very long and thin, often in an unnatural way. The light from my candle threw his elongated shadow on the walls. longer than normal
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
make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric" 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
If you elongate something or if it elongates, you stretch it so that it becomes longer. `Mom,' she intoned, elongating the word Corn is treated when the stalk starts to elongate. = lengthen. to become longer, or make something longer than normal (elongatus, past participle of elongare )