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单词 lengthen
释义 lengthen, v.|ˈlɛŋθ(ə)n|
Also 6 Sc. lenthin, 7 lenthen.
[f. length n.; cf. length v. and -en5.]
1. trans. To make longer, increase the length of, whether in material or immaterial sense; to elongate, prolong, protract. Also with out ( rarely on).
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxix. 6 Quhen that the nycht dois lenthin houris.1555Eden Decades 215 All suche as sayled towarde the West dyd greatly lengthen the day.1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. ii. 12 Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious Gold. What, is't too short? Ile lengthen it with mine.1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 43 This vengeance..will lengthen out My daies unmeasuredly.1611Bible 1 Kings iii. 14 Then I will lengthen thy dayes.1614–15Acc. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 487 For lenthning a wymble.c1700To Celia in Coll. Poems 54, I must to lengthen on the Pleasure Dwell on thy Lips, and Kiss by leisure.1711Addison Spect. No. 112 ⁋3 Sometimes he will be lengthening out a Verse in the Singing-Psalms, half a Minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it.1712W. Rogers Voy. 5 We lengthen'd our Mizen-Mast four Foot and a half.1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i. (1826) 6 He lengthened his visit till there was no longer an excuse for doing so.1805Wordsw. Prelude xiii. 317 The bare white roads Lengthening in solitude their dreary line.1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 35 The corridor was of immense length, and seemed to lengthen itself before us.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 101 The life of peace is that which men should chiefly desire to lengthen out and improve.1885Spectator 18 July 945/2 Twenty-nine such works are enumerated, and the list might be lengthened.
b. with reference to phonetic quantity.
1666[see lengthening vbl. n.].1755Johnson Gram., Of Vowels, It [E] does not always lengthen the foregoing vowel, as glŏve, lĭve, gĭve.1891H. Bradley Stratmann's ME. Dict. Pref. p. viii, A short vowel which has been lengthened by position.
c. Used for: To eke out, cause to last longer. Also with out. Obs.
1670Narborough in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 56, I do intend to salt up a quantity of each, to carry to Sea with me to lengthen out my Provisions.1712W. Rogers Voy. 255 We agreed for the Gallapagos to get Turtle to lengthen our Provisions.1748Anson's Voy. ii. viii. 220 We took a number of them [green turtle] with us to sea, which proved of great service..in lengthning out our store of provision.
2. intr. To become longer.
1695Locke Further Consid. Value Money 21 One may as well make a Yard, whose parts lengthen and shrink, as [etc.].1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 257 The stems will soon show themselves, and lengthen.1725Pope Odyss. xxiv. 408 His breath lengthens, and his pulses beat.1798Landor Gebir i. 205 And eyes that languished, lengthening, just like love.1813Shelley Q. Mab v. 52 The chain That lengthens as it goes.1877March Gram. Anglo-Saxon 26 Under the accent the simple vowels a, i, u, lengthen by prefixing a and â.1878M. A. Brown Nadeschda 82 Daylight fades, the shadows slowly lengthen.
b. Mil. (See quot.)
1802James Milit. Dict., To lengthen out, in a military sense, means to stride out.
Hence ˈlengthener.
c1560Misogonus iv. i. 158 (Brandl Quellen 482) Thou art the lengthner of my lif, the curar of my care.
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