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(verb) prolong, protract, extend
lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
We prolonged our stay; She extended her visit by another day; The meeting was drawn out until midnight
(verb) extract, pull, pull out, pull up, take out
remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
pull weeds; extract a bad tooth; take out a splinter; extract information from the telegram
remove as if by suction
aspirate the wound
(verb) educe, evoke, extract, elicit
deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant