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 )
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Etymologie
[ i-'lo[ng]-"gAt, (")E-, 'E-" ] (verb.) 1578. Late Latin elongatus, past participle of elongare, to withdraw, from Latin e- + longus.