as in to lengthen
to make longer
in his paintings the artist elongated the bodies of angels to give them a spiritual quality
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or elongated
as in long
of great extent from end to end
the giraffe's elongate neck is thought to be the result of natural selection
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Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 July 2024
Rick Owens In a less-is-more approach, Rick Owens elongated the straps on Birkenstock’s famous Arizona’s and a luxe black-on-black tone on the sporty Rotterdam sandals.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 9 July 2024
Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2011
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Shape Two common shapes are wide-body (which looks square-ish) and elongated (which looks rectangular), says Coughlin.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 July 2024
Rick Owens In a less-is-more approach, Rick Owens elongated the straps on Birkenstock’s famous Arizona’s and a luxe black-on-black tone on the sporty Rotterdam sandals.
—Laura Jackson, Vogue, 9 July 2024
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The small lake sits in the slightly elongate rift area where the eruption occurred.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2011
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“Elongate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elongate. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.
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