extend🔊

To increase in extent.

To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.

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 increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

(UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

(object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class. +

(US, military) To reenlist for a further period.