Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having greater length than breadth; prolonged.

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Examples

  • Other greeting-worthy occasions have been fully oblongated: for instance, death.

    Don't Be a Square 2007

  • A living creature whose form is articulated, having a sensitive body composed of three distinct parts; the head, the thorax and the abdomen-Legs, six in number; the first two act as maxillary; the second two as super-maxillary; the third two as lifters or props to an overhanging oblongated abdomen.

    Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising 1887

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