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PROLONG

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prolong verb tranzitiv

a prelungi (viaţa, o vizită, o linie etc.);

(com.) to prolong a bill a prelungi o cambie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He knows that I know too much, and that I must not live, lest I be dangerous to him; my only chance is to prolong my opportunities.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

In a large clinical trial to determine the risks and benefits of daily low-dose aspirin in healthy older adults without previous cardiovascular events, aspirin did not prolong healthy, independent living (life free of dementia or persistent physical disability).

(Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people, National Institutes of Health)

A tablet composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) that have been compressed into multiple layers and is designed to release active and/or inert ingredient(s) at a controlled, prolonged rate so as to reduce dosing frequency.

(Multilayered Extended Release Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Memantine binds to and inhibits cation channels of glutamanergic NMDA receptors located in the central nervous system (CNS), preventing the prolonged influx of calcium ions and the associated neuronal excitotoxicity, and thereby potentially enhancing cognitive function.

(Memantine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

She was in gay spirits, and would have prolonged the conversation, wanting to hear the particulars of his suspicions, every look described, and all the wheres and hows of a circumstance which highly entertained her: but his gaiety did not meet hers.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Then there came a breath so prolonged that it seemed as though it would tear open his chest.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I cannot afford to lose blood just at present; I have lost too much of late for my physical good, and then the prolonged strain of Lucy's illness and its horrible phases is telling on me.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I assured him sadly that it was so, and went on to suggest—for I felt that such a horrible doubt should not have life for a moment longer than I could help—that it often happened that after death faces became softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty; that this was especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or prolonged suffering.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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