LENGTHENED

elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged

(adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially; “Picasso’s elongated Don Quixote”; “lengthened skirts are fashionable this year”; “the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes”; “a prolonged black line across the page”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

lengthened

simple past tense and past participle of lengthen

Source: Wiktionary


LENGTHEN

Length"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lengthenel; p. pr. & vb. n. Lengthening.]

Definition: To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.

Length"en, v. i.

Definition: To become longer. Locke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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30 November 2024

HYPOTHETICAL

(noun) a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; “consider the following, just as a hypothetical”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.

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