Wikimore

English

(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#EXTEND) To increase in extent.
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#EXTEND) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
The desert extended for miles in all directions.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTEND
- 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:
  Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.
  Category:English terms with quotations#EXTEND
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#EXTEND) To cause to increase in extent.
Synonym: run
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#EXTEND) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#EXTEND) To straighten (a limb).
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#EXTEND) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
to extend sympathy to the sufferingCategory:English terms with usage examples#EXTEND

to extend credit to a valued customerCategory:English terms with usage examples#EXTEND
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTEND
- 1894, Fred Grundy, “Management of Fall Pigs”, in The American Agriculturist Volume 54:
  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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#EXTEND
- 1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, page 155:
  […] 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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#EXTEND
  Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
(UK Category:British English#EXTEND, law Category:en:Law#EXTEND) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
(object-oriented programming Category:en:Object-oriented programming#EXTEND) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
Synonym: inherit

The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTEND
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#EXTEND, US Category:American English#EXTEND, military Category:en:Military#EXTEND) To reenlist for a further period.
- 1993, The Leatherneck, volume 76, page xxxvi:
  Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.
  Category:English terms with quotations#EXTEND
  Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned

Synonyms

The terms below need to be checked and allocated to the definitions (senses) of the headword above. Each term should appear in the sense for which it is appropriate. For synonyms and antonyms you may use the templates {{syn|en|...}} or {{ant|en|...}}.