English
Etymology
From length + -en .
Pronunciation
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.
You need to lengthen the story if you want to have it published.
( intransitive ) To become longer.
The shadows on the lawn lengthened as the sun began to set.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to make longer
Arabic: طَوَّلَ ( ṭawwala ) , أَطَالَ ( ʔaṭāla )
Armenian: երկարացնել (hy) ( erkaracʻnel )
Aromanian: lundzescu
Assamese: দীঘলা ( dighola ) , দীঘল কৰ ( dighol kor )
Breton: hiraat (br)
Bulgarian: удължавам (bg) ( udǎlžavam )
Catalan: allargar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 加長 / 加长 (zh) ( jiācháng ) , 加长 (zh) ( jiācháng )
Czech: prodloužit (cs)
Finnish: pidentää (fi)
French: rallonger (fr)
Georgian: დაგრძელება ( dagrʒeleba ) , დაჭიმვა ( dač̣imva )
German: verlängern (de)
Greek:
Ancient: μακρύνω ( makrúnō ) , μηκύνω ( mēkúnō )
Ido: longeskar (io)
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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 )
Jarai: pơglông
Kazakh: ұзару ( ūzaru )
Ladino:
Roman: alargar
Macedonian: должи ( dolži ) , продолжува ( prodolžuva )
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 )