extend
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman and Old French extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“I stretch out”).
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VerbEdit
extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)
- (intransitive) To increase in extent.
- (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
- (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
- (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
- To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- 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.
- (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
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TranslationsEdit
to increase in extent
to possess a certain extent
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to cause to increase in extent
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to cause to last for a longer period of time
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