| 单词 | elongate |
| 释义 | elongate (once / 2065 pages) vadj WORD FAMILY elongate: elongated, elongates, elongating, elongation+/elongated: elongatedly/elongation: elongations USAGE EXAMPLESApparently midi-skirts elongate the figure and flatter the wearer, so this must be a good fall. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) Provide support for paperwhite narcissus and amaryllis stalks before they elongate and bloom. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) The Virgin Mary’s slender body is elongated, perhaps to optically compensate for the sculpture’s likely placement in a high niche. Los Angeles Times(Nov 21, 2016) 1v make long or longer by pulling and stretching Syn|Hypo|Hyper stretch shoetree, tree stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree lengthen make longer 2adj having notably more length than width; being long and slender an elongate tail tapering to a point Syn elongated long primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified 3adj (of a leaf shape) long and narrow Syn linear simple, unsubdivided (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions |
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