extend

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈstɛnd/
• Rhymes: -ɛnd
• Hyphenation: ex‧tend

extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)

1. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
2. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
3. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
4. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
6. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

   to extend sympathy to the suffering

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of G. P. Burnham to this entry?)

   • 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.

8. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. (object-oriented programming) 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.

   Synonym: inherit

• enlarge
• expand
• increase
• lengthen
• stretch
• widen

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