extend

present singular third person extends · participle present extending · participle past extended · past extended

1. intransitiveTo increase in extent.
2. intransitiveTo possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.

   The desert extended for miles in all directions.

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   Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.

   A Concise Geography of China

   1964, Jen Yu-ti [任育地], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 165

   The sands of Moltsog extend for some 80 kilometres, and surround a few lakes, such as Ganga Nuur.

   2002, Claire Sermier, “Eastern Aimags”, in Helen Loveday, transl., Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Airphoto International Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 226

3. transitiveTo cause to increase in extent.

   Synonyms: run

4. transitiveTo cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. transitiveTo straighten (a limb).
6. transitiveTo bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

   to extend sympathy to the suffering

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   to extend credit to a valued customer

7. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

   There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.

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   The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water.

   1894, Fred Grundy, “Management of Fall Pigs”, in The American Agriculturist Volume 54

   […] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper.

   1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, page 155

8. UKlawTo value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. object-oriented programmingOf a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.

   The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.

   Synonyms: inherit

10. USintransitivegovernmentTo reenlist for a further period.

    Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.

    1993, The Leatherneck, volume 76, page xxxvi

1. misspellingMisspelling of extent.