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prolonged

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pɹəʊˈlɒŋd//
  • United States//pɹoʊˈlɔŋd//
  • //pɹoʊˈlɑŋd//

Lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.

adjective

  1. 1

    Lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.

    The landslip followed a period of prolonged rainfall.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of prolongsimple past and past participle of prolong

Forms

comparative
more prolonged
superlative
most prolonged
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).