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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prolonged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a long/prolonged spell
▪ We have just had a long spell of unusually dry weather.
a prolonged absence (=continuing for a long time)
▪ Requests for prolonged absence during term time are strongly discouraged.
prolonged/protracted (=very long)
▪ Despite protracted negotiations, the two sides have failed to reach agreement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ There is a tendency for illnesses to become more prolonged, less intense and for the recovery to be slower.
▪ Song not unlike Meadow Pipit, but more prolonged and musical and often delivered at greater height.
▪ Thirdly, more prolonged treatment might have shown a late effect.
▪ But a piece of bread lying in almost liquid mud will demand a more prolonged cleaning process.
▪ In the meantime more prolonged screening beyond 30 years will be required in a number of at risk individuals.
■ NOUN
absence
▪ Sometimes foundations are shaken to the core by the premature death or prolonged absence of the main attachment figure.
▪ And how do you propose to explain your prolonged absence?
▪ Her prolonged absence had affected his concentration, and he'd made a hash of the signature of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
drought
▪ However, prolonged drought, and in Matebeleland armed conflict, have limited its effectiveness.
▪ This is commonly blamed on a prolonged drought during the amelioration of climate following the last glaciation.
▪ This summer, the situation has been exacerbated by prolonged drought.
exposure
▪ The true effect on wild dolphin populations of prolonged exposure to chemical pollutants is hard to measure.
▪ Everyone suffered from that daily and prolonged exposure to a Baldersdale winter - swollen faces and aching joints were commonplace.
▪ It does make sense that the lateral line would be adversely affected by prolonged exposure to unusually high voltage.
▪ However, laboratory tests show that Gore-Text can be penetrated by prolonged exposure to rain.
▪ It also brought prolonged exposure to the values and beliefs of the world's most powerful and prosperous capitalist nation.
▪ In fact, I think that we all get affected by it through prolonged exposure.
period
▪ A prolonged period of family life permits the growing offspring to add individual learning experiences to their inborn behaviour programming.
▪ Corticosteroids, if used for a prolonged period, can cause a type of dependency.
▪ This problem is most prevalent during prolonged periods of hot, dry weather.
▪ Don't leave your tent pitched all day for a prolonged period - this will degrade the flysheet.
▪ It would be surprising if prolonged periods of psychological morbidity are not reflected in declining physical health.
▪ Visits will be made to a small number of contrasting forces for a fairly prolonged period.
▪ It may reflect some prolonged period of stress at any level of being; physical, mental or emotional.
▪ If this treatment changes the fundamental disease process, a prolonged period of remission might be expected in these patients.
recession
▪ The prolonged recession wrecked Government finances, as income from taxation fell and spending on social security rose.
▪ Is he worried that it has taken such a deep and prolonged recession to reduce inflation to its current level?
▪ But prolonged recession and high unemployment knocked his popularity down to rock-bottom.
▪ Economists worry that even higher rates would make a prolonged recession much more likely than at present.
▪ Large firms have the expectation that prolonged recession will provoke assistance from at least some parts of the bureaucracy.
▪ In either case United Kingdom-linked companies are best avoided, as prolonged recession would result in more company failures and dividend cuts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a prolonged and bloody battle for independence
▪ a prolonged illness
▪ How are you going to explain your prolonged absence?
▪ Studies show that prolonged exposure to maternal depression can result in childhood mood disorders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As he had expected, Grigoriev's skin was tinted faintly golden, the result of prolonged use of Longivex.
▪ Heavy and prolonged frosts could reduce the normally steep and swift-flowing river to a mere trickle.
▪ It would be surprising if prolonged periods of psychological morbidity are not reflected in declining physical health.
▪ Measurement of sodium concentrations is simple to perform and offers the possibility of prolonged continuous monitoring.
▪ She did not want a prolonged discussion, she wanted only that he should go away.
▪ This problem is most prevalent during prolonged periods of hot, dry weather.
▪ This was different: these were the sounds of distress - short staccato yelps broken by prolonged baleful howling.
▪ We are able to resume ourselves after sleep, after an alcoholic stupor, after an epileptic fit, after prolonged coma.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prolonged

Prolong \Pro*long"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prolonged; p. pr. & vb. n. Prolonging.] [F. prolonger, L. prolongare; pro before, forth + longus long. See Long, a., and cf. Prolongate, Purloin. ]

  1. To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.

  2. To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.

    Prolong awhile the traitor's life.
    --Shak.

    The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night.
    --Dryden.

  3. To put off to a distant time; to postpone.
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
prolonged

  1. lengthy in duration; extended; protracted. v

  2. (en-past of: prolong)

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WordNet
prolonged

  1. adj. relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations" [syn: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted]

  2. 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" [syn: elongated, extended, lengthened]

  3. (of illness) developing slowly or of long duration

Usage examples of "prolonged".

The multigenerational ripple effect of prolonged illness, grieving, and accommodating overlap in the Megregian-Johannessen homes, as they do in so many families.

The prolonged stay of Bonaparte at Moscow can indeed be accounted for in no other way than by supposing that he expected the Russian Cabinet would change its opinion and consent to treat for peace.

In the cases following September 11, there was evidence that the anthrax spores had been specially treated so they would remain suspended in the air for prolonged periods, making them more likely to be inhaled because they could literally float out of an envelope.

However, there is a point at which prolonged use of the antitoxin could become .

Such fistulas were caused by battering during childbirth, and were more common in very young girls, where the strain of prolonged labor often caused such tearsor in older women, where the tissues had grown less elastic.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

A cyclist needs his lung capacity the way he needs his legs, and prolonged exposure to bleomycin would almost certainly end my career.

On the contrary, there are reasons which compel belief that, in many instances, these vivisections implied the most horrible and prolonged torments that the practice of animal experimentation has ever been permitted to evoke.

And after you have performed them you will not understand that they were expiatory any more than you have understood all the other expiation that has kept you in such prolonged humiliation.

But neither their beauty nor their impatience had the least effect with the waiter, who prolonged the dinner at his pleasure, and alarmed the Marches with the misgiving that they should not have time for the final palace on their list.

Stavely and her CSM were aggressively opposed to American approval of Montayne, arguing that the drug might be unsafe and should be given more prolonged testing.

Miss Overmore had often said to her in reference to any fear that her mother might resent her prolonged detention.

But the engineer desired to know how and where the overplus of the water from the lake escaped, and the exploration was prolonged under the trees for a mile and a half towards the north.

As I said, prolonged phasing was an exhausting way to travel, especially for teens like me, and we had just done eight hours.

I had already found out how hard prolonged phasing is on a person my age.