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Significados de lengthen em inglês

português
alongar
catalão
allargar-se
espanhol
alargar

Become long or longer.

alongar

To draw out to greater length.

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Examples for "extend"
Examples for "extend"
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He needs to: clean up politics; protect the economy; and extend opportunity.
The Guardian
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However, the benefits to the overall economy will extend far beyond that.
The Irish Times
3
It also wants to extend health services in all public secondary schools.
Radio NZ
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The programme is not intended to extend beyond this year, officials said.
Radio NZ
5
Where possible, try to extend existing indexes rather than adding new ones.
High performance mysql, 2nd edition
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The possible significance of elongate spermatodactyls and male reduced feeding are explored.
Pubmed
2
Nantucket Shoals Fishing Rip is an elongate bank lying 29 miles SE.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
3
The breakthrough may lead to treatments that could significantly elongate human life.
The Guardian
4
The body is elongate, oval, somewhat widened anteriorly, and has rounded ends.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole / Bulletin of the United States ...
5
Tail elongate, tapering, with two rows of shields, keeled on the sides.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...

To lengthen in extent, scope, or range.

Uso de lengthen em inglês
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Prison officers claim new security screening measures will lengthen their working day.
The Irish Times
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Never shall that line fail, though the years may lengthen beyond count.'
The lord of the rings
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It is unacceptable for governments to stand by as dole queues lengthen.
The Guardian
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Proceeds of the issue will help the firm lengthen its maturity profile.
Reuters
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Lithium is known to lengthen period and increase amplitude of circadian rhythms.
Pubmed
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The shadows were beginning to lengthen across the slope of the hill.
The Claim Jumpers: A Romance
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The preliminaries to departure seemed to accumulate and lengthen-andlessen in importance.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
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His merry face seemed to lengthen in feature, to harden in line.
Flamsted quarries
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The only alternative therefore is to lengthen the time given to study.
Science & Education: Essays
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The segments can be separated from each other to lengthen the abdomen.
The Insect Folk
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I am already regretting distortions: the beautiful silhouette has begun to lengthen.
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
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No amount of spurring served to lengthen the stride of their horses.
The Brown Mask
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The nails seem to lengthen by at least an inch as well.
Once bitten, twice dead
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We need not lengthen out our the by narrating what there ensued.
Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Withi...
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I won't lengthen the existence of this scandal by the smallest patronage.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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I screamed and arched my back, feeling my spine lengthen and pop.
The iron king
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Translations for lengthen
português
alongar
Lengthen ao longo do tempo
Lengthen nas variantes da língua
Reino Unido
Comum
Estados Unidos da América
Comum