extend

About 20.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The desert extended for miles in all directions.

3. verb To cause to increase in extent.
4. verb To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. verb To straighten (a limb).
6. verb To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

   to extend sympathy to the suffering

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

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

8. verb To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

Similar words

widen broaden expand stretch prolong protract draw out reach out stick out poke out

Often followed by

the to their beyond from its his over into this

Word family

extendabilities extendability extendable extended extendible extending extends