To Elongate

1. (transitive) To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.

Synonyms: extend, stretch

2. (intransitive) To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To move to or place at a distance (from something).
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.