extend
Make reach further
Extend means to stretch out or make longer.
You extend an arm, extend a deadline, extend a road.
The meaning broadens to offering: extend an invitation, extend credit, extend sympathy.
Something that extends covers a certain distance or duration: The forest extends for miles.
Extended means lengthened or prolonged: an extended warranty, an extended stay.
To make longer
- stretchPull to extend
- protractExtend duration unnecessarily
- prolongExtend in duration
- draw outExtract or extend
continue · sustain · lengthen · drag out · spin out · string out · carry on · keep going
Extent of variation
- reachExtend to touch
- spanDistance between endpoints
- coverageExtent of inclusion
- breadthExtent across something
expanse · domain · territory · jurisdiction · influence · purview · bounds · limits
Spread fully outward
- stretch outExtend to full length
- reach outInitiate communication with someone
- hold outRefuse to concede
- put forthTo offer or propose
offer · proffer · present · stick out · project · jut · overhang · cantilever
elongate
To make longer
draw out · continue · sustain · lengthen · drag out · spin out · string out · carry on · keep going · run on
range
Extent of variation
breadth · expanse · domain · territory · jurisdiction · influence · purview · bounds · limits · parameters
broaden
Expand in scope
augment · increase · spread · develop · grow · escalate · magnify · multiply · enhance · build out
outstretch
Spread fully outward
- stretch outExtend to full length
- reach outInitiate communication with someone
- hold outRefuse to concede
put forth · offer · proffer · present · stick out · project · jut · overhang · cantilever · span
grant
Bestow or award money
confer · provide · afford · tender · present · impart · furnish · lend · advance · issue
encompass
Include within bounds
- embraceHold closely in arms
- incorporateAbsorb into something larger
- includeMake part of
integrate · subsume · cover · comprise · contain · involve · admit · welcome · open up · diversify
- body movementsflexion, bend, twist, standing, sitting
- building verbsbuild, construct, erect, demolish, renovate
- improveimprove, enhance, better, refine, upgrade
- size changesenlarge, enlargement, expand, expansion, shrink
- resting positionslie down, lie flat, recline, repose, prone
- scaling upexpand, expansion, growth, grow, increase
- extension cordFlexible electrical reach lengthener
- extended familyRelatives beyond parents, siblings
- extended familiesRelatives beyond parents and siblings
- to some extentPartially but not fully
- extended warrantyPurchased additional coverage period
- hair extensionAttached synthetic or natural strands
extent, extension, extensive, extended, extending, extends, extensible, extender, extendible