Lexic.us

Definition of Prolonged

1. Adjective. Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted. "Protracted negotiations"

2. Adjective. Drawn out or made longer spatially. "A prolonged black line across the page"

Definition of Prolonged

1. Adjective. lengthy in duration; extended; protracted. ¹

2. Verb. (past of prolong) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prolonged

1. prolong [v] - See also: prolong

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolonged

prologues prologuing prologuize prologuized prologuizes prologuizing prolong prolongable prolongate prolongation

prolongational reduction prolongational reductions prolongations prolonge prolonge knot prolonged (current term) prolongedly prolonger prolongers prolonges

prolonging prolongingly prolongings prolongment prolongments prolongs prolongued prolotherapist prolotherapists prolotherapy

Literary usage of Prolonged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
""Friendship" complex, exposed by 4 words and 12 signs, as prolonged time, ... A " Love " complex, exposed by 6 words and 13 signs, such as prolonged time, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"prolonged cases demand forced feeding. Between attacks cold baths, tonics and various ... A prolonged and desperate struggle followed; and several times the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"MELANCHOLIA DUE TO THE prolonged USE OF MORPHINE. DR. SB LYON presented the history of a case of melancholia following the prolonged use of morphine for the ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The dangers of such prolonged use were pointed out to her then and many times since, but any attempt even to change to ..."

5. The Philosophy of Education: Being the Foundation of Education in the by Herman Harrell Horne (1907)
"The period of human infancy is prolonged beyond that of any other creature. In the lowest organic forms birth is by partition of the parent, ..."

6. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"Fig. 12 demonstrates that the prolonged rise of the muscle record begins soon after this characteristic drop in blood pressure. ..."

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