Lengthen

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  • transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become longer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make long or longer; extend or elongate in space or in duration; protract or prolong: as, to lengthen a line; to lengthen life; to lengthen a vowel or syllable in pronunciation.
  • To grow long or longer; extend in length.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become longer.
  • transitive verb. To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make longer, to extend the length of.
  • verb. To become longer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become long or longer
  • verb. make longer
  • Word Usage
    "The word Lent, however, comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lengthen, which means: Spring."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    shorten  
    cross-reference
    extend  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grow  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form