elongate

To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.

To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.

To move to or place at a distance (from something).

To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

Lengthened, extended, elongated; relatively long and slender.

“Painted turtles lay oval, elongate eggs.”