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extend

English

  1. 🔊 increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
    “stretch the soup by adding some more cream”
  2. 🔊 prolong the time allowed for payment of
    “extend the loan”
  3. 🔊 expand the influence of
    “The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent”
  4. 🔊 open or straighten out
    “Can we extend the legs of this dining table?”
  5. 🔊 make available
    “extend a loan”
  6. 🔊 reach outward in space
    “The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk”
  7. 🔊 extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
    “Stretch your legs!”
  8. 🔊 continue or extend
    “The civil war carried into the neighboring province”
  9. 🔊 use to the utmost
    “He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro”
  10. 🔊 cause to move at full gallop
    “Did you gallop the horse just now?”
  11. 🔊 offer verbally
    “extend my greetings”
  12. 🔊 lengthen in time
    “We prolonged our stay”
  13. 🔊 extend in scope or range or area
    “The law was extended to all citizens”
  14. 🔊 span an interval of distance, space or time
    “The war extended over five years”
  15. 🔊 thrust or extend out
    “He held out his hand”
  16. 🔊 extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
    “Unfold the newspaper”
  17. 🔊 stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope
    “Service runs all the way to Cranbury”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 estirar to extend
  2. 🔊 explayar to extend
  3. 🔊 extender to extend, to expand
  4. 🔊 ampliar to extend, expand, enlarge

Similar words

stretch exsert stretch out put out hold out stretch forth stretch carry prolong protract draw out widen broaden expand strain gallop unfold stretch stretch out offer offer run go pass