lengthen

English

Etymology

From length +‎ -en.

Verb

lengthen (third-person singular simple present lengthens, present participle lengthening, simple past and past participle lengthened)

(transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of.
(intransitive) To become longer.
The shadows on the lawn lengthened as the sun began to set.

Antonyms

shorten

Translations

to make longer

Arabic: طَوَّلَ‎ (ṭawwala), أَطَالَ‎ (ʾaṭāla)
Aromanian: lundzescu
Assamese: দীঘলোৱা (digholüa), দীঘল কৰা (dighol kora)
Breton: hiraat (br)
Catalan: allargar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 加長 (zh), 加长 (zh) (jiācháng)
Czech: prodloužit
Finnish: pidentää (fi)
French: rallonger (fr)
Georgian: დაგრძელება (dagrʒeleba), დაჭიმვა (dač̣imva)
German: verlängern (de)
Greek:
Ancient: μακρύνω (makrúnō), μηκύνω (mēkúnō)
Ido: longeskar (io)

Irish: sín
Italian: allungare (it)
Japanese: 延ばす (ja) (nobasu), 長くする (ja) (nagaku suru), 延長する (ja) (enchō suru)
Ladino:
Roman: alargar
Macedonian: должи (dólži), продолжува (prodólžuva)
Maori: whakaroa, katete
Norman: allouongni (Jersey)
Polish: przedłużyć (pl) pf, wydłużyć (pl) pf
Portuguese: alongar (pt), acompridar (pt), encompridar
Romanian: lungi (ro)
Russian: удлиня́ть (ru) impf (udlinjátʹ), удлини́ть (ru) pf (udlinítʹ)
Spanish: alargar (es)
Swedish: förlänga (sv)
Telugu: పొడిగించు (te) (poḍigiñcu)

to become longer

Arabic: طَالَ‎ (ṭāla)
Assamese: দীঘল হোৱা (dighol hüa)
Finnish: pidentyä (fi), pidetä (fi)

Swedish: förlängas (sv)
Westrobothnian: längt