Spindled

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spindle \Spin"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Spindled}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Spindling}.]
     To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to
     become disproportionately tall and slender.
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           It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.
                                                    --Lowell.
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