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adj. - Having notably more length than width; Drawn out or made longer spatially.

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Usage examples (37)
  • Picasso's elongated Don Quixote
  • The expression elongated his face, giving him a gaunt look accentuated by his perpetually startled brown eyes.
  • I heard her just fine, but she reported that my speech was somehow "elongated" and that I "sounded like one of those cartoon" voices.
  • The jambins are a kind of elongated eel-pot in which they catch more, especially lobsters and red garnet.
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