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• v  make long or longer by pulling and stretching
• s  (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
• s  having notably more length than width; being long and slender
  an elongate tail tapering to a point
  the old man's gaunt and elongated frame

• I'm trying to elongate the evening.
• The creature's arms elongate into gleaming spikes that impale people and latch onto moving cars.
• Chanel, whose hand-sewn shoes take more than two days and 100 steps to make, based its classic two-tone flats on the beige-and-black pumps Coco designed to elongate the appearance .

• stretch
• linear
• elongated

News & Articles

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• HEELS ON WHEELS: 2013 MINI PACEMAN REVIEW
  INTRO TO THE PACEMAN VEHICLE The MINI lineup has grown in character over the last couple years, with the all-new Paceman representing what happens when you elongate the doors and raise the shoulder line on the iconic hatchback to turn it into a two-door coupe with all-wheel drive.
  July 5, 2013 - The Auto Channel

Quotes

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• Jessica Simpson in New York Daily News
  Whether wearing rings to elongate your neck in Thailand or having plastic surgery in Brazil, women all over the world go to [great] lengths to feel beautiful,Simpson says of the show. "It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel...
• Janet Napolitano in KTAR.com
  Yeah, we have to change our path a little bit,Napolitano told reporters last week. "We may have to elongate some things longer than we would have wished just like any family would do in a budget situation like this, but we don't just shut...
• Celine Dion in New York Times
  I'm trying to elongate the evening,Ms. Dion said in the two-hour final show, during which she went through seven costume changes and several speeches about her career and family.