verb
- Extend in scope or range or area.
- usage: "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard"
- Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.
- usage: "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "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"
- Span an interval of distance, space or time.
- usage: "The war extended over five years"; "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"
- Make available; provide.
- usage: "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"
- Thrust or extend out.
- usage: "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand"; "the bee exserted its sting"
- synonyms: exsert, stretch out, put out, extend, hold out, stretch forth
- Reach outward in space.
- usage: "The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk"
- Offer verbally.
- usage: "extend my greetings"; "He offered his sympathy"
- Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body.
- usage: "Stretch your legs"; "Extend your right arm above your head"
- Expand the influence of.
- usage: "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent"
- Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.
- usage: "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
- Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length.
- usage: "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"
- synonyms: unfold, stretch, stretch out, extend
- Cause to move at full gallop.
- usage: "Did you gallop the horse just now"
- Open or straighten out; unbend.
- usage: "Can we extend the legs of this dining table"
- synonyms: extend
- Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity.
- usage: "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much"
- Prolong the time allowed for payment of.
- usage: "extend the loan"
- synonyms: extend
- Continue or extend.
- usage: "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"
- Increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance.
- usage: "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice"
adjective
- Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted.
- usage: "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations"
- synonyms: drawn-out, lengthy, prolonged, protracted
- Fully extended or stretched forth.
- usage: "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"
- Drawn out or made longer spatially.
- usage: "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
- synonyms: elongated, lengthened, prolonged
- Beyond the literal or primary sense.
- usage: "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
- Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity.
- usage: "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
- synonyms: extensive
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