extend
/ɛkˈstɛnd/ verb B1- To increase in extent.
- To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space. · The desert extended for miles in all directions.
- To cause to increase in extent.
- To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- To straighten (a limb).
- To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply. · to extend sympathy to the suffering· to extend credit to a valued customer
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions. · There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.
- 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.
He/she/it extends · Past extended · Past participle extended · -ing form extending
Verb forms
- Base form
- extend
- He/she/it
- extends
- Past
- extended
- Past participle
- extended
- -ing form
- extending
From the library
Monte Cristo could not resist this proof of affection; he not only extended his hand to the young man, but flew to him with open arms.
D’Avrigny, unable to bear the sight of this touching emotion, turned away; and Villefort, without seeking any further explanation, and attracted towards him by the irresistible magnetism which draws us towards those who have loved the people for whom we mourn, extended his hand towards the young man.
She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair.
And Villefort’s father extended his hand to the bell-rope, to summon the servant whom his son had not called.
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