ELONGATE

elongate

Verb

  1. To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
  2. To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
  3. To remove further off.

Adjective

  1. lengthened, extended.
  2. slender.


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