Definition of "elongates" [elongates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elongate. (verb)

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• "A great writer is one who elongates the perspective of human sensibility, who shows a man at the end of his wits an opening, a pattern to follow."
• "He's a powerful force, Hoss, and he throws his head back to look down his wide, flat nose at me, his eyes small and round at the top of it, his mouth, as it elongates into a straight, toothy, white smile, taking up half of his face."
• "Well, for one, the slight elevation elongates and shapes the calf, lengthening the silhouette without throwing one's body into that semisexual provocative arch that got those "F— me" pumps that name in the first place."