Lengthening

verb

Word Frequency: 1.4

Definitions

1.verbTo make longer, to extend the length of.

2.verbTo become longer.

"The shadows on the lawn lengthened as the sun began to set."

3.nounThe process of growing longer.

4.nounA type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens

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