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Extend   /ɪkstˈɛnd/   Listen
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



... been attempted with nets. Fixed nets extend across many of the bodies of water around the British Isles. Their positions, doubtless, are now very well known to the Germans. The problem of cutting through them is not a difficult one. Moreover, the hull of the submersible has been modified so that the propellers ...
— The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner • Georg-Guenther von Forstner

... hold an outing meeting in Williams Canyon. We will first take you through Huccacode Cave, then we will have supper on Pinion Crag. We will hold our meeting about the council fire, at which time we will be very pleased to extend to you the right hand of fellowship, and make you a ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley

... dangerous people." In the first place, as regards the above-mentioned control of reason, we should like to have candid answers to the three following questions: First, how does the new believer picture his heaven? Secondly, how far does the courage lent him by the new faith extend? And, thirdly, how does he write his books? Strauss the Confessor must answer the first and second questions; Strauss the Writer must ...
— Thoughts out of Season (Part One) • Friedrich Nietzsche

... Ireland, but that loves himself and his Family, to do his best to assist so happy a Scheme, so distinguish'd a Society, with his Purse, his Head and his Hands, if he knows how to use any of them. Nay, they shou'd extend the same Methods, and the same Premiums, to their several Provinces, Counties and Cities, for the particular Arts and Manufactures, that are likeliest to thrive there: And if they diffused them to their own Estates, Manors and Tenants, it wou'd in Time with Patience and Management, produce vast ...
— A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. • Anonymous

... the age of twenty-five are less cogent. They extend only to the woman herself. She should know that the first labors of wives over thirty are nearly twice as fatal as those between twenty and twenty-five. Undoubtedly nature points to the period between the twentieth and ...
— The Physical Life of Woman: - Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother • Dr. George H Napheys


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