prolonged
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4.3
- adjective
- /prəˈlɔŋd/
:
alargado
- These salamanders don't have a prolonged courtship: males deposit their spermatophores everywhere.
Examples
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What Willie might actually be experiencing is this right, A prolonged series of stressors where he's getting no recovery time.
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Her prolonged "silence" in the 1970s was defined by an extended and obstructive suspension of her ambitions and "great dreams" of the previous decade.
Academic text (2013) -
We notice a fairly prolonged tail.
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It looked no different from yesterday, except for perhaps being a bit more shiny from prolonged contact with her skin.
Fiction book (1992) -
I dropped to my knees and began covering her with deep, prolonged kisses.
Fiction book (1996) -
The urn had warmed from her prolonged contact.
Fiction book (1997) -
Debbie sat contentedly on the stoop and drank it all in one prolonged gulp.
Fiction book (2002) -
The resolution of this anomaly may be found in the secular increase in trade with countries such as China, combined with the prolonged and significant depreciation of the Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar over most of the 1990s.
Academic text (2005) -
The second clap of thunder, more violent and more prolonged than the first, echoes even more loudly in the patio, and it is the reverberations of it that seem to shake the tops of the trees, and not the wind that, in portions of the sky that the storm has not yet clouded over, sets the stars to twinkling.
Fiction book (1999) -
The marathon runner experienced a prolonged fatigue after the race, requiring several days to recover.
Synonyms
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4.5
Long and thin in shape, longer than it is wide
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3.5
Stretched out to a longer length in space
Made longer in time or size
Spread out far across a large area
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
Questioning someone for a long time to cause stress or force answers
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word prolonged comes from the verb prolong, which is made of pro- ('forward') and long ('long'), so it literally means 'made long'. So a prolonged beam is one that is stretched out or extended in space.