lengthening

Meaning of lengthening

verb
  1. To make longer, to extend the length of.
  2. To become longer.
    The shadows on the lawn lengthened as the sun began to set.
noun
  1. The process of growing longer.
  2. A type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens

Information about lengthening

  • Languages ​​in which lengthening is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of lengthening

length-en-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • lengthening is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

lengthening synonyms

Meaning prolongation:

prolongation, protraction, perpetuation

lengthening antonyms

Meaning :

shorten

Words that rhyme with lengthening

Chesaning, Harmaning, airplaning, aquaplaning, baning, beaning, begroaning, bemeaning, bemoaning, buccaning, caning, caravaning, chairmaning, chalaning, challaning, chicaning, cleaning, companing, costeaning, craning, deaning, demeaning, deplaning, eaning, emplaning, enplaning, foremeaning, gleaning, graddaning, groaning, housecleaning, hydroplaning, leaning, loaning, meaning, misdemeaning, moaning, organing, orphaning, overcleaning, paning, peaning, physicianing, planing, postweaning, precleaning, preweaning, profaning, recaning, recleaning

Are you looking more rhymes for lengthening? Try our rhymes search engine.