Usually means: Makes something longer in measurement.
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  1. lengthens: Merriam-Webster
  2. lengthens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lengthens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lengthens, lengthens: Wordnik
  5. lengthens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lengthens: Wiktionary
  7. lengthens: Dictionary.com
  8. lengthens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. lengthens: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lengthen)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become longer.
▸ Also see lengthen


Opposite:
shortens, reduces, shrinks, contracts

Types:
extends, prolongs, stretches, enlarges, more...



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Opposite:
shortens, reduces, shrinks, contracts

Types:
extends, prolongs, stretches, enlarges, more...




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