Stretching out the rubber band will elongate it considerably.
Source: tatoeba (6166048)
Elongate
//ɪˈlɒŋɡeɪt//
Synonyms for "elongate" (41 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
46 translations across 21 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- падаўжа́ць verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- падо́ўжыць verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разтеглям verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- удължавам verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Catalan
1 entries- allargar verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Finnish
4 entries- pitkulainen adj (having a long and slender form)
- olla pitkulainen verb (of a plant part: to have a long and slender or tapering form)
- pidentää verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- pidetä verb (to become long or longer)
French
2 entries- allongé adj (having a long and slender form)
- allonger verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Galician
1 entries- alongar verb (to make (something) long or longer)
German
3 entries- ausdehnen verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- längen verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- verlängern verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Greek
1 entries- επιμηκύνω verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Hebrew
1 entries- האריך verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Hungarian
1 entries- meghosszabbít verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Japanese
1 entries- 引き伸ばす verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Ladino
1 entries- alargar verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Malay
2 entries- memanjang verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- memperpanjang verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Polish
2 entries- wydłużać verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- wydłużyć verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Portuguese
3 entries- delgado adj (having a long and slender form)
- alongar verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- elongar verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Romanian
4 entries- alungit adj (having a long and slender form)
- elongat adj (having a long and slender form)
- prelung adj (having a long and slender form)
- alungi verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Russian
2 entries- удлини́ть verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- удлиня́ть verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Spanish
3 entries- delgado adj (having a long and slender form)
- elongar verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- elongarse verb (to become long or longer)
Swahili
1 entries- refusha verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́довжити verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- видо́вжувати verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- подо́вжити verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- подо́вжувати verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Welsh
2 entries- estyn verb (to make (something) long or longer)
- hwyhau verb (to make (something) long or longer)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
The common hoopoe is recognisable by its elongate body; long, slender, slightly curved, and pointed beak (which is much compressed at its sides); and short powerful foot armed with blunt claws.
Source: tatoeba (11037520)
Painted turtles lay oval, elongate eggs.
Source: wiktionary
He stood in the shadow of the pagoda, achieving a kinship between the building and himself by his elongate elegance, an air of old, uninsisting nobility.
Source: wiktionary
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