extend

Verb

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; 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 Press, →OCLC, page 165
3. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.

   Synonyms:

   run

4. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
6. (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
   • to extend sympathy to the suffering
   • to extend credit to a valued customer
7. 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 54
8. (UK) 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.

   Synonyms:

   inherit

10. (US, intransitive) 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