extend

Meaning

1. To increase in extent.
2. To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
3. To cause to increase in extent.
4. To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. To straighten (a limb).
6. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
7. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
8. To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
10. To reenlist for a further period.

make longer

stretch forth

drive into

enhance

cause to reach

be disseminated

lengthen out

add to

purvey

rectify

hand up

be lengthened

by-bid

gain influence

get bigger

happen to

have position

make bigger

make progress

make wider

open out

reach to

sow in

spread over

strech out

swell out

reach out for

ride into

be prolonged

stand in a row

spread through

grow long

support each other

be enlarged

be protracted

stretch over

be widespread

be contaminated

have implications

have meanings

last until

prolong syllables

extension activities

reach as far as

draw cut

sale promotion

make to grow

defer put back

address

amount to

be situated

drag one’s feet

drag one’s heels

last long

overbear

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ex‧tend

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛkˈstɛnd/

From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“I stretch out”).

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