Crossword-Solution: ELONGATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Elongate | a. | To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. |
| Elongate | a. | To remove further off. |
| Elongate | v. i. | To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. |
| Elongate | a. | Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ELONGATE | anagram | EAGLETON |
We have 38 clues for the answer “ELONGATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| stretch the fabric | 1 answer |
| make long or longer by pulling and stretching | 1 answer |
| HAVE tapering form | 1 answer |
| String out | 1 answer |
| Stretch out or lengthen | 1 answer |
| Stretch ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme? | 1 answer |
| HAVE slender form | 1 answer |
| Scandal at a North Carolina college? | 1 answer |
| Scandal involving Tesla C.E.O. Musk? | 1 answer |
| make or become longer | 2 answers |
| wiredraw | 2 answers |
| MAKE longer | 3 answers |
| ROOM for action | 5 answers |
| Stretched | 9 answers |
| ANNUAL STRETCH OF TROIS M | 10 answers |
| AND STRETCH FOLD | 10 answers |
| BEING LONG AND SLENDER | 11 answers |
| Unfurl | 14 answers |
| Draw out | 15 answers |
| Lengthen | 15 answers |
| Stretch (out) | 21 answers |
| unroll | 22 answers |
| prolong | 23 answers |
| protract | 25 answers |
| Jut | 27 answers |
| Pull out | 27 answers |
| DRAG out | 36 answers |
| deploy | 36 answers |
| Lengthy | 51 answers |
| Enlarge | 51 answers |
| untwist | 54 answers |
| Extend | 54 answers |
| Stretch | 56 answers |
| Expand | 59 answers |
| Pursue | 69 answers |
| Draw | 74 answers |
| Drag | 86 answers |
| Increase | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ELONGATE (5)
These loops, even when made as perfectly as possible, have a tendency to elongate, thus spoiling the adjustment of the wires Great care should be taken to minimize this as far as possible.
Knowing the latter to be extremely sensitive to minute changes of pressure, for example, those of sonorous vibrations, he conceived the idea of measuring radiant heat by causing it to elongate a thin bar or strip of metal or vulcanite, bearing at one end on the button.
Comparing Mesohippus with Eohippus, we observe that the former is much larger, some species attaining the size of a sheep, and has a relatively longer neck, longer limbs and much more elongate feet, which are tridactyl, and the middle toe is so enlarged that it bears most of the weight, while the lateral digits are very much more slender.
The two stars are certainly close together, and it is obvious that in such a case the tidal forces exercised by each on the other must be such as to elongate the figure of each towards the other.
They are elongate and very slightly smaller at one end, from four to four and a half inches long by two and a quarter or two and a half wide.
Quotes with ELONGATE (3)
Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.
And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …
The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, more of a ragged slot, dirty yellow. And you'll see that the white of a goat's eye is all black.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 39 times in crossword archives (1972–2018).