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Making longer
Answer for the clue "Making longer ", 10 letters:
elongating
Word definitions for elongating in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elongate \E*lon"gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elongated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Elongating .] [LL. elongatus, p. p. of elongare to remove, to prolong; e + L. longus long. See Long , a., and cf. Eloign .] To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of elongate English)
Usage examples of elongating.
In place of the purplish-white chaos of lightspeed, local space was fracturing into elongating lines of light.
Indeed I felt the nails of my fingers involuntarily elongating into chitin knives, and this too was a reaction I could scarce control.
He gave her a quizzical look, almost sad but not quite because the overhead lights were doing odd things to his features, elongating them as if they were made of tallow.
Colors streaked by, then merged, images elongating, then disappearing altogether into this new and curiously exhilarating reality.
The pool glittered like a dead man’s eye, and as the world awoke a breeze blew, shaking and elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water.
Even now, he could feel the slight and slow shift of his teeth, canines elongating as saliva built up until he quietly swallowed it down.
As it moved, he felt a counterpart elongating and stretching of the vision he had chosen.