extend

To increase in extent.

Noun

Misspelling of extent.

Origin

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

Verb

To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- The desert extended for miles in all directions.
- Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west. - 1964, Jen Yu-ti [任育地], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages...
To cause to increase in extent.
Synonyms: run
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend credit to a valued customer
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.
- 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...
- […] 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. -...
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
Of 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
To 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:

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