Usually means: Stretches or lengthens in form.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. elongates: Merriam-Webster
  2. elongates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. elongates: Vocabulary.com
  4. elongates: Wordnik
  5. elongates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. elongates: Wiktionary
  7. elongates: Dictionary.com
  8. elongates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elongates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elongates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See elongate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elongate)

adjective:  Elongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
verb:  (obsolete) Followed by from: to move to or place (something) at a distance from another thing; to remove.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
verb:  (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
verb:  (obsolete) Followed by from: to be at a distance, or move away, from a thing; to depart; (specifically, astronomy) of a planet, star, or other astronomical object: to appear to recede from the sun or a fixed point in the celestial sphere.
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