LENGTHENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lengthened mean? 

• LENGTHENED (adjective)
  The adjective LENGTHENED has 1 sense:

1. drawn out or made longer spatially

  Familiarity information: LENGTHENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENGTHENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drawn out or made longer spatially

Synonyms:

elongated; extended; lengthened; prolonged

Context example:

a prolonged black line across the page

Similar:

long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)

 Context examples 

The curly crop has lengthened into a thick coil, more becoming to the small head atop of the tall figure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The visit of the Miss Steeles at Barton Park was lengthened far beyond what the first invitation implied.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Slowly, slowly, the bristling ball straightened out and lengthened.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At first it was only a minute’s chat, but soon his visits lengthened, and before the end of the term we were close friends.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I dream of it sometimes, though at lengthened and uncertain intervals, to this hour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No sooner had she expressed her delight in Mr. Allen's lengthened stay than Miss Tilney told her of her father's having just determined upon quitting Bath by the end of another week.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

His face lengthened immediately; and his voice was the voice of sentiment as he answered.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for a few minutes he said that it would be all right.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was very vexatious, and she was heartily sorry for it; but so it was; and so far from now meaning to marry the elder, she did not even want to attract him beyond what the simplest claims of conscious beauty required: his lengthened absence from Mansfield, without anything but pleasure in view, and his own will to consult, made it perfectly clear that he did not care about her; and his indifference was so much more than equalled by her own, that were he now to step forth the owner of Mansfield Park, the Sir Thomas complete, which he was to be in time, she did not believe she could accept him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The seventh round, however, showed the reserve strength of the hardy old fighter, and lengthened the faces of those layers of odds who had imagined that the fight was practically over, and that a few finishing rounds would have given the smith his coup-de-grâce.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)