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Extend

verb

(past & past part. extended; pres. part. extending)

1.

Extend in scope or range or area. Synonyms: broaden, widen. "Widen the range of applications" , "Broaden your horizon" , "Extend your backyard"

2.

Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point. Synonyms: go, lead, pass, run. "His knowledge doesn't go very far" , "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life" , "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"

3.

Span an interval of distance, space or time. Synonyms: continue, cover. "The period covered the turn of the century" , "My land extends over the hills on the horizon" , "This farm covers some 200 acres" , "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"

4.

Make available; provide. Synonym: offer. "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"

5.

Thrust or extend out. Synonyms: exsert, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out. "Point a finger" , "Extend a hand" , "The bee exserted its sting"

6.

Reach outward in space. Synonyms: poke out, reach out.

7.

Offer verbally. Synonym: offer. "He offered his sympathy"

8.

Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body. Synonym: stretch. "Extend your right arm above your head"

9.

Expand the influence of. Synonym: expand.

10.

Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer. Synonyms: draw out, prolong, protract. "She extended her visit by another day" , "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"

11.

Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length. Synonyms: stretch, stretch out, unfold. "Stretch out that piece of cloth" , "Extend the TV antenna"

12.

Cause to move at full gallop. Synonym: gallop.

13.

Open or straighten out; unbend.

14.

Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity. Synonym: strain. "Don't strain your mind too much"

15.

Prolong the time allowed for payment of.

16.

Continue or extend. Synonym: carry. "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"

17.

Increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance. Synonym: stretch. "Extend the casserole with a little rice"

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"Extend" Quotes from Famous Books

... spring empties into a primitive basin of stone. The middle distance is of meadow land. In the background a pool, bordered by reeds and dotted by water plants, lies in a grove of alder trees and bushes of hazelnut, willow and beech. The meadows extend on either side encircled by immemorial oaks, elms, beeches and birch trees. Between the foliage of the trees and bushes the church spires of distant villages are visible. To the left, behind the bushes, arise the thatched roofs ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

... go on with this good work and stimulate enthusiasm in your purpose in a nation wide way, working together with one common object, proceeding under the motto of the Three Guardsmen of France, "One For All and All For One." I now extend to you the freedom of the city. Roam where you will. Just one bit of advice I have to give. Contrary, perhaps, to general report, this is not a slow town and therefore you are in more danger of being run ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... all old campers to do this, whenever they happen to awaken; not that he suspected that there would be any peril hovering around; but then possibly the fire might have worked its way through a line of dead grass, and threaten to extend; or it perhaps needed another small log to keep the blaze going, and ward ...

— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter

... resolute attempt being made to carry out and extend the humane system of treatment inaugurated nearly half a century before ...

— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... authority which the late king had helplessly laid down, formed a new and effective centre of organized resistance to tyranny in the future Even the rising towns had seized the moment when the central administration was paralysed to extend their own privileges, and to acquire large powers of self-government which were to prove the fruitful sources of ...

— Henry the Second • Mrs. J. R. Green

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