[verb]If you lengthen something you make it longer and if it lengthens it becomes longer.I'll have to lengthen this skirt. [T]The queue outside the shop was lengthening. [I] -length [suffix]Something which is a particular -length is long enough to reach the stated place.a knee-length skirtshoulder-length haira floor-length evening dress
LENGTHEN
Meaning of LENGTHEN in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012