elongate

Meanings

Verb

• To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
• To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
• To move to or place at a distance (from something).
• To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

Adjective

• Lengthened, extended, elongated; relatively long and slender.

Origin

• New Latin elongare, a combination of ex- + longus. eloign.