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LENGTHENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drawn out or made longer spatially
Example:
a prolonged black line across the page
Synonyms:
elongated; extended; lengthened; prolonged
Classified under:
Similar:
long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb lengthen
Context examples:
But often a pause so gained lengthened out until it evolved into a complete cessation from the attack.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“This lengthened absence, these solitary rambles, did not speak a mind at ease, or a conscience void of reproach.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The day of separation and departure arrived; and Marianne, after taking so particular and lengthened a leave of Mrs. Jennings, one so earnestly grateful, so full of respect and kind wishes as seemed due to her own heart from a secret acknowledgment of past inattention, and bidding Colonel Brandon farewell with a cordiality of a friend, was carefully assisted by him into the carriage, of which he seemed anxious that she should engross at least half.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was so agreeable to her to see him again, and hear him talk, to have her ear amused and her whole comprehension filled by his narratives, that she began particularly to feel how dreadfully she must have missed him, and how impossible it would have been for her to bear a lengthened absence.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Dick was so very complacent, sitting on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, and telling me this, with his eyes wide open and a surprised smile, that I am sorry to say I was provoked into explaining to him that ruin meant distress, want, and starvation; but I was soon bitterly reproved for this harshness, by seeing his face turn pale, and tears course down his lengthened cheeks, while he fixed upon me a look of such unutterable woe, that it might have softened a far harder heart than mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the centre of the little area of light.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Their increasing attachment was not to be satisfied with half a dozen turns in the pump-room, but required, when they all quitted it together, that Miss Thorpe should accompany Miss Morland to the very door of Mr. Allen's house; and that they should there part with a most affectionate and lengthened shake of hands, after learning, to their mutual relief, that they should see each other across the theatre at night, and say their prayers in the same chapel the next morning.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
We may treat it as a joke, said he, at last, recovering from the affected laugh which had considerably lengthened out the genuine gaiety of the moment—but, upon my soul, it is a most serious business.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
After what had passed to wound and alienate the two families, the continuance of the Bertrams and Grants in such close neighbourhood would have been most distressing; but the absence of the latter, for some months purposely lengthened, ended very fortunately in the necessity, or at least the practicability, of a permanent removal.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
