Extend

Definition: Extend

Extend

Verb

1. Extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon".

2. Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets".

3. Span an interval of distance, space or time; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres".

4. Make available; provide; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages".

5. Extend out and forward, as of a limb; "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand".

6. Reach outward in space; "This rock sticks out"; "The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk".

7. Offer verbally: "extend my greetings"; "He offered his sympathy".

8. Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body; "Stretch your legs!" "Extend your right arm above your head".

9. Expand the influence of; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent".

10. : lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer: "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight".

11. : extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna".

12. : cause to move at full gallop; "Did you gallop the horse just now?".

13. : open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?".

14. : use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much".

15. : prolong the time allowed for payment of: "extend the loan".

16. : continue or extend; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces".

17. : increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance; "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "extend" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Note: Extend \Ex*tend"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Extended; present participle verb or noun Extending.]. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Extend

Distance

Verb: be distant; Adjective: extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go to, get to, stretch away to; range.

Elasticity

Verb: stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic. Adjective: bounce, spring back. (recoil).

Expansion

Verb: become larger; (large; ); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.

Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.

Friendship

Verb: be friendly; Adjective:, be friends; be acquainted with; Adjective: know; have the ear of; keep company with;(sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will; (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend; (aid); introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; Adjective: make friends; with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.

Length

Verb: be long; Adjective: stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along."

Render long; Adjective: lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let out, draw out, spin out; drawl.

Crosswords: Extend

And so, we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully-armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

Beavis and Butt-head, on behalf of your fellow Americans I extend my deepest thanks (Beavis and Butt-head Do America; writing credit: Mike Judge;)

Huh huh huh, he said extend! (Beavis and Butt-head Do America; writing credit: Mike Judge;)

Tell me, Commander, how far does your expertise extend into the field of diamonds (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

See no matter what i will extend my arms to hug you (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

And thereby extend their hand (Rock N Roll Nigger; performing artist: Patti Smith)

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Books

• Cold Climate Gardening: How to Extend Your Growing Season by at Least 30 Days (reference)

• Dr. Atkin's Health Revolution: How Complementary Medicine Can Extend Your Life (reference)

• How to Calculate the Length of Your Life and Then Extend It (reference)

• Living Longer Stronger: The 6-Week Plan to Enhance & Extend Your Years over 40 (reference)

• Methods to Extend Mechanical Component Life: Lessons Learned with Space Vehicle and Rocket Engine Components (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Xl4000 Fastcopper+ Bridge/routr10MBps Dsl Extend Lan Add L 4000ft (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Common characteristics of the Culex restuans are dark-scaled proboscis, dark tarsus, a pair of small pale submedian spots usually present in middle of scutum, and bands on abdomen which extend to lateral margins. Vector of the West Nile virus. Credit: CDC.

3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Ridge to south of Pioneer Seamount Turbidity currents debouch from Pioneer Canyon, strike ridge, and are deflected Huge dune structures are formed which extend many miles to the south. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Kilauea lava flows that extend to the sea - relatively new land at this location. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Northern Water Snake - Nerodia sipedon sipedon - a common, non-venoemous water snake. Often mistaken for the Eastern Cottonmouth or Water Mocassin, Agkistrodon piscivorus. The known range for the latter does not extend further north than the Great Dismal Swamp. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Surface-supply and dive bells greatly extend the time divers could stay down. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

GOES image of North America. Weak band of rain on the eastern seaboard. Bright thunderstorm clouds extend along a frontal system from the Central Gulf Coast states through the Midwest to the eastern Great Lakes. Patchy rain clouds are over the Pacific Northwest whle spotty snow clouds blanket the northern Rocky Mountain states. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Contour stripcropping used in a crop field in central Iowa helps keep topsoil in place and extend the life of Lake Red Rock. Lakes such as Red Rock are filling much faster with sediment than engineers planned. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Great Britain, British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital, Newton-Abbot, England. : Frame to support and extend arm. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

At Port Said, Egypt, 26 June - 4 July 1898, while serving with Rear Admiral Manuel de la Camara's Philippines relief expedition. She has been fitted with four masts to permit the use of sails to extend her cruising range. Note furled sails on some masts, and identification letter A on her bow. Ship at extreme left is the Spanish auxiliary cruiser Patriota. Credit: NAVY.

"Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty, and with the other extend the domain of the darkest curse . . .". Credit: Library of Congress.

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This, so far as it is usurpation, is a change only of persons, but not of the forms and rules of the government: for if the usurper extend his power beyond what of right belonged to the lawful princes, or governors of the commonwealth, it is tyranny added to usurpation. (Second Treatise of Government)

We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. (reference)

Clause 7: Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. (reference)

The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. (reference)

Freedom of transit will extend to telegraphic and telephonic services under the conditions laid down by the conventions referred to in Article 98. (reference)

The Agreement which was made at Yalta, to which I was a party, was extremely favorable to Soviet Russia, but it was made at a time when no one could say that the German war might not extend all through the summer and autumn of 1945 and when the Japanese war was expected to last for a further 18 months from the end of the German war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Her maternal feelings stopped with her girls, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys

But indeed few of them extend even to that length

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Health

Platelets can be frozen to extend their storage period. (references)

In a few cases, survival may extend for several decades. (references)

Self-help groups can complement and extend the effects of professional treatment. (references)

Business

But German-American ties extend back to the colonial era. (references)

The airline may decide to extend this arrangement given its poor financial performance. (references)

A few firms may extend terms to 60 or 90 days by time draft, but this is not a common practice. (references)

Children

Hong Kong

A proposed bill on Prevention of Child Pornography that the Government plans to introduce before the Legislative Council in 2002 would criminalize the making, production, distribution, publication, advertising, and possession of child pornography and prohibit the procurement of children for making pornography, extend the application of certain sexual offense provisions to acts committed against children outside of Hong Kong, and prohibit any arrangement or advertising relating to commission of those acts. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

A new application is required to extend the card for an additional year. (references)

Bulgaria

Access to border zones is limited for nonresidents (the border zones extend 1.2 to 3 miles inward from each border). (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Maturities now extend to ten years. (references)

Kenya

The GOK eventually plans to extend the pipeline to Uganda. (references)

Jordan

The committee may extend the three-year period if necessary. (references)

Human Rights

Argentina

Proposed legislation to extend the deadline for claims was not enacted. (references)

Georgia

Judges may extend pretrial detention by 3-month intervals up to 9 months. (references)

Albania

The prosecutor may extend this period by 3-month intervals in especially difficult cases. (references)

Political Economy

India

India and the United States share common interests that extend beyond trade and commerce. (references)

ISRAEL

It retains a mechanism to extend long-term export credits, but the volumes involved are small, roughly $250 million. (references)

Sri Lanka

USAID's current program will sharpen business competitiveness in global markets and extend its program affecting trade and investment. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

A Government-sponsored bill to extend the provision could not be passed without a constitutional amendment, which would have required a two-thirds majority. (references)

Sierra Leone

In March and September, the Government invoked its constitutional authority to extend the life of parliament and the term of office of the President for 6 months, citing the continuing "state of war" in the country. (references)

Turkmenistan

A 1994 national referendum, which was neither free nor fair, extended the President's term to 2002, obviating the need for the scheduled presidential election in 1997. According to the official results, 99.9 percent of those voting cast their ballots to extend his term. (references)

Trade

Australia

However, some programs do extend to Australia. (references)

Kenya

Differences in business practices extend into export financing. (references)

Hungary

The U.S. - E.U. mutual recognition agreement does not extend to Hungary. (references)

Travel

Azerbaijan

An additional fee to extend the visa will be required. (references)

Chad

They plan to extend their networks to other regions in 2001. (references)

Australia

Many executives and conference delegates extend their stays in Australia with a holiday. (references)

Women

Jordan

However, divorced and widowed women may extend coverage to their children. (references)

Jordan

Current laws and regulations governing health insurance for civil servants do not permit women to extend their health insurance coverage to dependents or spouses. (references)

Netherlands

The Parental Leave Law allows parents to take unpaid full-time leave for 3 months and to extend that leave for more than 6 months to care for children up to 8-years old. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

Minimum wage laws do not extend to domestic workers. (references)

Gambia

Child labor protection does not extend to youth performing customary chores on family farms or engaged in petty trading. (references)

Gabon

Laws forbidding child labor theoretically extend protection to foreign children as well, but abuses often were not reported. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "extend": extend a helping hand ♦ extend a warm welcome ♦ extend a welcome ♦ extend an invitation ♦ extend hand ♦ extend his activities ♦ extend motion ♦ extend oneself ♦ extend to ♦ extend validity ♦ extend welcome to smb.. Additional references.

Ending with "extend": over-extend.

Afrikaans

grootte (bulk, dimension, size). (various references)

Albanian

zmadhoj (aggrandize, amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, heighten, increase, magnify, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overstate, redouble, salt, stretch), zgjeroj (amplify, broaden, dilate, diversify, enlarge, enrich, expand, fill out, let out, widen), zgjatem (continue, dwell on, lengthen, linger, lunge, reach, run, stand out, stretch oneself), zgjat (delay, elongate, hold out, last, lengthen, let down, linger, postpone, prolong, protract, reach, reach out, spread, stretch, telescope), zgjas (carry over, delay, drag out, draw out, elongate, lengthen, let down, postpone, project, prolong, protract, spin out, spread, stretch), vazhdoj (carry on, carry over, continue, go ahead, go on, hold on, hold over, keep, keep on, maintain, pick up, press on, proceed, prosecute, pursue, push on, run, spread), tregoj (argue, bear, bespeak, betoken, bring out, connotate, connote, denote, designate, direct, display, establish, evidence, evince, exhibit, expose, express oneself, finger, give away, indicate, infer, make out, manifest, narrate, note, point out, present, proclaim, produce, profess, prove, read, recite, relate, show, show round, spiel, spin out, tell, tell tales, yield), tejkaloj kufi (overleap, overreach), shtrihem (lap, lie, lie back, lie down, outspread, spread), shpreh (bid, breathe, clothe, couch, embody, express, express oneself, formulate, give voice to, import, outspeak, phrase, profess, put, put forward, say, speak, utter), rrit (add to, augment, boost, breed, bring up, enhance, expand, grow, heighten, hike, improve, increase, intensify, keep, maximize, mother, raise, up), përhapem (dilate, enlarge, expatiate, get about, get along, outspread, overreach, overspread, permeate, pervade, proliferate, Ravel, reach, spill out, spread, transpire), përforcoj (add, aggrandize, confirm, engrain, establish, exalt, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss, underpin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عمل بكل طاقته, ‏بسط (couch, distend, expand, expound, extension, facilitate, fine, lay, reach, simplify, spread, state, stretch, unroll, unwind, unwrap, vulgarize), ‏رحب (be wide, capacious, greet, large, ocean, receive, salute, spacious, welcome), ‏ثر (feather one's nest), ‏أطال (drag out, draw out, elongate, prolong, protract, spin), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏إمتد (be extended, be prolonged, continue, elongate, expand, lengthen, pervade, range, reach, sprawl, spread, stretch), ‏جرى حصانابكل سرعته, ‏بذل (do, exert, spend), ‏عزز (abound, bear out, boost, build, carry, cement, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enhance, foster, help, promote, ram, reinforce, sustain, underpin), ‏مط (drag, drawing out, stretch), ‏زاد (add, augment, boost, compound, dispense with, enhance, get dearer, grow, heighten, increase, jump, provisions, push up, put up with smth., supplement, swell, victuals), ‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏وجه دعوة, ‏وسع (aggrandize, amplify, broaden, contain, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, flare, flare up, splay, widen), ‏قدم (advance, age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, come back, display, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, offer, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), ‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), ‏مد (add to, dilate, distend, draw out, elongate, equip with, expand, extension, furnish, help, lengthen, lengthening, outspread, outstretch, prolong, prolongate, prolongation, protract, protraction, provide, respite, spread, stretch, supply with), ‏مدد (dilate, expand, spin, stick out, sustain), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удължавам (elongate, lengthen, prolong, protract, stretch), трая (continue, endure, hold, keep, last, save, stretch), отправям (channel, direct, dispatch, forward, put up, send, transmit, turn), обтягам (draw out, strain, stretch), простирам (put out, reach, spread, thrust out), протягам (protract, shoot out, spread, stick out, stretch, thrust out), продължавам (carry on, continue, go ahead, go on, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, proceed, produce, prolong, prosecute, protract, push on, reach, resume, spread, stretch), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), изказвам (divulge, enounce, evince). (various references)

Chinese 

礡 (fill), �"� (3-5 p.m., 9th earthly branch, to explain, to state), �"�展 (expand), 佈 (diffuse, notify), 伸出 , 延長 (prolong), 延伸 (Extending), 寬限 . (various references)

Czech

vzdát (offer, surrender, yield), táhnout se (drag out, spin out, tail back), sahat (come up to, reach, tail back), roztáhnout (distend, spread, stretch out, unfold), rozšířit (augment, broaden, enlarge, expand, put about, scale up, set about, spread, vulgarize, widen), prostírat se (range, reach, spread, spread out, stretch), prolongovat (renew), prokázat (demonstrate, establish, render, show), prodloužit (elongate, lengthen, let down, produce, prolong, pull out, renew), poskytnout (administer, afford, furnish, give, grant, house, provide, render, supply, tender, volunteer), natáhnout (soak, straighten, strain, stretch, wind), klenout se (arch, camber). (various references)

Danish

størrelse (bulk, dimension, grandeur, greatness, size), bredning (expand, sorting). (various references)

Dutch

uitbreiden (aggrandize, augment, enlarge, increase, strech out), omvang (bulk, dimension, size), grootte (bulk, dimension, grandeur, greatness, measure, measurement, size), bestek (bulk, dimension, reckoning, room, size, space, specifications). (various references)

Esperanto

etendi (strech out), pluvalidigi, pludaŭrigi, amplekso (bulk, dimension, size). (various references)

Faeroese

toyggja (strech, strech out, wind up), rætta út (strech out). (various references)

Farsi 

منبسطکردن (Expand, Explode, Rarefy, Stretch), تمدیدکردن , طول دادن (Protract), ادامه دادن (Continue, Further, Keep, Maintain, Run, Runon), رساندن (Broadcast, Convey, Forward, Give, Impart, Imply, Putin, Supply, Transmit, Understand), درازکردن (Lengthen, Prolong, Protract). (various references)

Finnish

ojentaa (hand, hold out, pass, reach, rebuke, strech out, stretch out). (various references)

French

étendre (be extended, expand), prolonger, déployer (exert). (various references)

German

erweitern (amplify, broaden, develop, dilate, enhance, enlarge, expand, increase, let out, open out, ream, to amplify, to broaden, to dilate, to enhance, to enlarge, to expand, to extend, to interpolate, to ream, upgrade, widen), ausziehen (discard, doff, draw out, extract, move out, pull off, pull out, put off, put up, remove, set forth, set out, shed, slip off, strip, strip off, supplied, take off, take out, trace, undress, walk out), ausstrecken (elongation, hold out, outstretch, put out, stick out, strech out, stretch out, thrust out, to outstretch, to reach out, to stretch), ausdehnen (distend, elongate, enlarge, entlarge, expand, open out, pad out, prolong, stretch, to enlarge, to extend), ausbreiten (display, lay out, outspread, set out, splay, spread, spread out, strech out, stretch, stretch out, to splay, to spread, to spread (out), unfold, unfurl, unroll). (various references)

Greek 

εκτείνω (distend, outspread, reach, stretch), εκτείνομαι (outspread, range, reach, stretch), επεκτείνω (expand, liberalize). (various references)

Hebrew 

למשוך (attract, drag, draw, pull, strain, stretch, tempt, tow), לתת �"ארכ�", לפרוש (cast a net, expand, spread, stretch out, unfurl), ל�"משיך (carry on, continue, draw, go, go ahead, lengthen, prolong, push on, resume), ל�"תמשך (be extended, be prolonged, continue), ל�"ושיט י�" (give a hand, outstretch), ל�"שתרע (sprawl, spread, stretch), ל�"אריך (draw out, elongate, lengthen, prolong, protract, spin out, sustain), ל�"רחיב (amplify, augment, broaden, dilate, expand, splay, widen), ל�"רבות (amplify, enhance, enlarge, expand, increase, magnify, multiply), ל� טות (deviate, dispose, fancy, incline, lean, stretch, tend, tip, trend, turn aside). (various references)

Hungarian

terjedelem (bulk, content, coverage, dimension, expanse, extension, extent, footage, largeness, latitude, magnitude, purview, quantity, range, reach, size, spread, stretching), nyújt (accord, administer, afford, dilate, give, render, stretch, to afford, to dilate, to elongate, to hold out, to lengthen, to mill, to minister, to offer, to present, to rack, to shoot out one's tongue), növel (enhance, increase, raise, redouble, to aggravate, to augment, to darken counsel, to elevate, to enhance, to enlarge, to exacerbate, to extend, to gear up, to heighten, to improve, to redouble, to send up, to step up), meghosszabbít (elongate, prolong, protract, to elongate, to extend, to lengthen, to prolong), kiterjeszt (amplify, diffuse, enlarge, escalate, expand, outspread, subtend, to broaden, to escalate, to expand, to extend, to generalize), kiterjedõ (extending), kiterjedés (ambit, bulk, coverage, dimension, enlargement, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, latitude, measurement, outspread, range, reach, scope, size, spaciousness, spread, stretching). (various references)

Icelandic

stærð (bulk, dimension, grandeur, greatness, size). (various references)

Indonesian

mengulurkan (pass out, pay out, stick out), mengulur (make concessions, pay out), memperpanjang (elongate, lengthen, prolong), memperluas (broaden, escalade, expand, widen). (various references)

Italian

estendersi (broaden, range, reach, run, splay, stretch, sweep), espandere (enlarge, entlarge, expand, spread out, stretch), ampliare (amplify, dilate, enlarge, expand, magnify, ream, upgrade, widen), allungare (elongate, lengthen, prolong, put out, reach, renew, shoot out, slip, stick out, stretch, stretch out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乗り入れる (to drive into, to ride into). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のりいれる (to drive into, to ride into). (various references)

Korean 

늘이십시�". (various references)

Luganda

n'okubuuzaganya (and greetings, and to extend greetings). (various references)

Manx

sheeyney magh (attenuate, attenuation, distend, distention, expand, expansion, fork out, hold out, lengthen, pass round, prolong, protract, protraction, push out, put out, reach, stretch out, unfold, unfold as landscape), sheeyn magh, reirey (administer, administration, casting, dictation, manage, management, order, procuration, reach, serve), niartaghey (affirm, affirmation, brace, building up, cement, confirm, confirmation, consolidate, consolidation, documentation, fortification, fortify, intensify, invigorate, nerve, reinforce, reinforcement, stiffen, strengthen), mooadaghey (aggravation, amplify, augment, develop, developing, enlarge, escalate, escalation, exaggerate, exaggeration, exaggerator, expand, expansion, extension, gain, grow, increase, increment, magnification, magnify, maximize, mount, multiplication, multiply, swell), lheanaghey (beat out, branch out, broadening, dilate, dilation, expand, expansion, extension, flare, flatten, hammer down, sprain, widen, widening, yawn, yawn as chasm), cur roshtyn er. (various references)

Maya

sin (to extend). (various references)

Norwegian

utvide (expand), størrelse (bulk, dimension, grandeur, greatness, size), forlenge (lengthen). (various references)

Papiamen

tamaño (bulk, dimension, size). (various references)

Pig Latin

extenday.(various references)

Portuguese

estender (broaden, deploy, flummox, hang out, hold out, lay, lengthen, proffer, prolong, put forth, spread, spread out, strech out, stretch, uncoil, unroll, widen). (various references)

Romanian

evalua în vederea sechestrãrii, extinde (delocalize, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, improve, protract, pull, push, spread, stretch, widen), mãri (add, advance, aggrandize, amplify, augment, better, broach, broaden, carry, develop, dilate, enhance, enlarge, expand, greaten, improve, increase, intensify, largen, lift, magnify, multiply, piece out, raise, reinforce, splay, step up, swell, widen), acorda (accommodate, accord, adjust, afford, agree, allow, attach, attune, award, confer, dovetail, fit, give, grant, invest, key, lend, offer, pay, pitch, place, reconcile, set, tally, temper, vouchsafe), adãuga (accede, add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, complete, enclose, enlarge, follow up with, prefix, schedule, superinduce, supervene, supplement, swell, tack), da (accord, administer, afford, avail, beat, bestow, bind, deal, deliver, deliver up, fetch, find, gift, give, give away, grant, hallo, hand, inflict, launch, lend, offer, pass, pay, push, reach, render, restore, return, sell, send, set, sound, sprout, yea, yes, yield), destinde (ease, enlarge, expand, loosen, relax), lãţi (dilate, widen), întinde (arrange, couch, dilate, draw, expand, fling out, hang, lay on, lengthen, outspread, outstretch, pull, pull up, reach, set, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew, tauten, tighten, widen), lungi (dilate, dilute, draw out, eke out, lengthen, let down, protract, spin out, stretch), transcrie (copy, transcribe), mårime (bulk, dimension, size), oferi (accord, afford, avail, bid, exhibit, give, hold forth, offer, proffer, put up, show, stand, stretch, yield), prelungi (drive, eke out, last, lengthen, pause on, prolong, protract, spread), rãspândi în lanţ, se întinde (elongate, lie down, make, range, reach, recline, recoil, run, set off, spindle, sprawl, spread, stretch, sweep), se extinde (broaden, expand, make, widen), sechestra (impound, seize, sequester), supune la un efort maxim, lãrgi (amplify, broach, delocalize, dilate, enlarge, expand, fill, largen, let out, splay, stretch, widen). (various references)

Russian 

растягивать войска, расширяться (broaden, dilate, enlarge, expand, widen), расширять расширенный (enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, widened), расширять (amplify, boost, branch off, branch out, broaden, deepen, dilate, enhance, enlarge, escalate, expand, extends, ratchet up, widen, widens), тянуться (drag on, draw out, reach out, stretch), тянуть (drag, drag out, draw, haul, heave, protract, pull, pulled, round in, tote, tug), вытягиваться (stretch), вытягивать (draw out, elicit, exhaust, stretch), оказывать (exert, pay), простираться (outspread, reach, run, spred), простирать (overspread), протягивать (hold forth, hold out, reach, stretch), продлевать (elongate, prolong, trail out). (various references)

Scottish

sgaoil (enlarge, expand, spread), meudaich (cause, enlarge, multiply). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukazati (administrate, indicate, point out, point to), razgranati (ramify), pružati (hand, impart, offer), protegnuti (stretch oneself), prostreti (lay, spread), prolongirati (postpone, prolong), produžiti (carry forward, elongate, go on ahead, hold over, keep up, lengthen, proceed, prolong, prosecute, protract, resume), proširiti (aggrandize, amplify, broaden, dilate, expand, let out, widen), ispružiti (crane, put out, reach, reach out, spread out, stretch out). (various references)

Spanish

alargar (accord, convey, draw out, drop, dwell on, elongate, give, hand, hand over, hold out, lengthen, let down, pass, protract, put forth, put out, reach, spend, spin out, strech out, throw out, touch), extenderse (be, expand, grow, last, lie, range, reach, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, stretch out, travel, unfold), extender (carry, draw, draw up, enlarge, escalate, expand, hold out, issue, lay, lay down, lay out, make bigger, make out, obtrude, open, open out, open up, overblow, prolong, put forth, put out, renew, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch out, string out, unfold, unfurl, widen, write out), ensanchar (broaden, enlarge, expand, let out, stretch, widen), ampliar (aggrandize, amplify, blow up, broaden, develop, enlarge). (various references)

Swedish

utsträcka (extending, strech, stretch). (various references)

Tagalog

lakí (bulk, dimension, size). (various references)

Thai

เสนอให้ (tender), ทำให้ยื�"ออกไป, ยื่น (give in, lodge). (various references)

Turkish

yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yardım eli uzatmak (bear a hand), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), uzamak (augment, continue, draw out, elongate, grow longer, hold over, lengthen, linger, pull out, scat, stretch, sweep), genişletmek (amplify, broaden, dilate, enlarge, expand, let out, widen), genişlemek (broaden, dilate, enlarge, expand, flare, splay, sprawl, spread out, widen, yawn), devam ettirmek (carry on, keep, keep smth. going, keep the ball rolling, keep up, sustain, uphold, wage), büyümek (accrue, augment, bulk, enlarge, expand, flourish, greaten, grow, grow up, hatch, increase, outgrow, shoot up, swell, vegetate, wax), avcı hattına yayılmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

uzatmak (stretch out), sьяndьrmek (prolong, stretch out), sья, зukuralmak (make deeper, make more profuse), batlandyrmak (stretch). (various references)

Ukrainian

розширяти (let out, splay), простягатися (continue, outreach, range, stretch), протягувати, поширювати (distribute, expand, generalize, intend, noise, outstretch, promulgate, propagate, push, put about, radiate, retail, set about, shed, sow, spread, vend, widen). (various references)

Welsh

estyn (prolong, reach, stretch), ehangu (amplify, broaden, enlarge), ymestyn (reach, stretch), helaethu (amplify, enlarge). (various references)

Zulu

usayizi (bulk, dimension, size). (various references)

2. la. (various references)

amplificare, amplificarent, amplificatus, amplificaverunt, amplificemus, amplifices, amplificet, contendam, contendas, contendat, contende, contendebant, contendebat, contendentes, contendere, contenderit, contendet, contendi, contendimus, contendis, contendit, contendite, contenditis, contenta, contenti, contentus, continuo, dilata, dilataberis, dilatabis, dilatabitur, dilatamini, dilatandum, dilatant, dilatare, dilatares, dilataret, dilatasti, dilatastis, dilatat, dilatata, dilatatis, dilatatum, dilatatus, dilataveris, dilataverit, dilatavero, dilataverunt, dilatavit, dilatet, dilato, distendantur, distendere, distenti, distentionem, effuderim, effuderint, effuderis, effuderit, effuderitis, effudero, effuderunt, effudi, effudisti, effudit, effundam, effundant, effundas, effundatis, effundatur, effunde, effundebantque, effundebatur, effundendum, effundens, effundensque, effundent, effundentem, effundentes, effundentium, effunderem, effunderent, effundes, effundet, effundetur, effundi, effundit, effundite, effunditur, effundo, effusa, effusi, effuso, effusorum, effusum, effusus, explicare, explicita, explicitis, explicuerit, exporrigens, extendam, extendant, extendas, extendat, extende, extendebantur, extendebat, extendens, extendent, extendente, extendentes, extendentium, extendentque, extenderat, extendere, extenderent, extenderet, extenderim, extenderit, extenderitis, extenderunt, extendes, extendet, extendetur, extendi, extendisse, extendisset, extendisti, extendit, extenditque, extenditur, extenta, extentae, extenti, extento, extentum, extentumque, extentus, laxa, laxabo, laxantes, laxate, laxati, laxo, pando, patebit, patens, patent, patentes, patere, pateretur, pateris, patet, patuit, pertineant, pertinebant, pertinebat, pertinebit, pertinens, pertinent, pertinentes, pertinerent, pertinet, pertingat, pertingebat, pertingendi, pertingens, pertingentes, pertingeret, pertingo, pervagatusque, porrecta, porrectus, porrexit, porrige, porrigebat, porrigebatur, porrigeret, porriges, porriget, prodeat, prodere, proderet, proderis, prodiderat, prodideris, prodiendum, prodiente, prodierunt, prodiet, prodiit, prodit, proditi, proditor, prodivi, prolongabitur, prolongata, prolongatus, prolongaverunt, prolongavit, prolongentur, promineo, protendentem, protendentes, protendit, supereffundentia, superextendam, superextendimus, tendat, tendebant, tendebatur, tendens, tendent, tendentem, tendentes, tendere, tenderent, tendit, tendo, tendunt, tetenderat, tetenderunt, tetenderuntque, tetendit, tetenditque. (various references)

prolongare. (various references)

astreccan, ryman. (various references)

estente. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "extend": extendabilities, extendability, extendable, extended, extendedly, extendedness, extendednesses, extender, extenders, extendible, extending, extends. (additional references)

Words ending with "extend": coextend, hyperextend, overextend. (additional references)

Words containing "extend": coextended, coextending, coextends, hyperextended, hyperextending, hyperextends, overextended, overextending, overextends. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Extend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ecksteen, entendu, etten, exdend, extane, exte, exteed, exten, extens. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: deet, dene, dent, need, next, teed, teen, tend.

-3 letters: dee, den, dex, end, nee, net, ted, tee, ten.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, et, ex, ne.

+1 letter: extends.

+2 letters: coextend, dextrine, extended, extender.

+3 letters: coextends, dextrines, expedient, explanted, extenders, extending, extincted, pentoxide, unexcited.

+4 letters: coextended, dextranase, exonerated, expedients, expediting, expedition, extendable, extendedly, extendible, extenuated, extermined, intermixed, overextend, oxygenated, pentoxides, undertaxed, undertaxes, unexpected.

+5 letters: alexandrite, coextending, deoxygenate, dextranases, exenterated, expediently, expeditions, expenditure, hyperextend, inexpedient, overextends, tinderboxes, unexploited.