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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enlarging and inflating
augmentation
balloon
bloat
broaden
build (someone/something) up
bulk
expand
explosively
flare
fluff something up
implacably
inflatable
inflation
lengthen
puff
puffed
pump someone up
reinflate
reinflation
scale something up

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Examples of lengthening

lengthening

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Lengthening appears to occur less frequently among trochaic systems than iambic systems, and an analysis of rhythmic lengthening must account for this asymmetry.
Lengthening the spike has the effect of moving the point of re-attachment of the separated layer up the nose of the body towards the shoulder.
We know, and the results confirmed, that lengthening the initial links (choice phase) has a dramatic and quantifiably predictable effect on preference.
The elastic phrase : modeling the dynamics of boundaryadjacent lengthening.
Increasing the proportion of banana residue in the mixture (as in the 2: 1: 1 treatments) means lengthening the composting period to 8 weeks.
The forms with lengthening marked by an aleph also provide evidence for the compensatory lengthening discussed in the following section.
Although the relevant lengthening always occurs in a stressed syllable, we will see that lengthening cannot be explained by the position of stress.
There are two ways to produce rhythmic lengthening using nonfinality : non-finality in the syllable and non-finality in the foot.
The first is the observation mentioned above that lengthening occurs with greater frequency among iambic systems than it does among trochaic systems.
Characteristics of lengthening contractions associated with injury to skeletal muscle fibers.
Lengthening is a change in the length feature (and\\or the tense feature) whilst umlaut fronts back vowels.
This lengthening of the growing season provides more opportunities for pathogenic relationships and greater potential for affecting other nearby crops.
He demonstrates that phonetic duration, as found for example in word-size differences and in phrase-final lengthening, has a role in permitting greater tonal contrasts.
Finally, it is generally assumed that the intonationally defined hierarchy is correlated with the degree of phrase-final lengthening and the existence of pause.
It is worth noting that, although small, the lengthening of the intermediate intervals is not negligible.
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