extend

  • (verb): To increase in extent.
  • (verb): To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
  • (verb): To cause to increase in extent.
  • (verb): To cause to last for a longer period of time.
  • (verb): To straighten (a limb).
  • (verb): To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
  • (verb): To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
  • (verb): To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
  • (verb): Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
  • (verb): To reenlist for a further period.
  • The desert extended for miles in all directions.
  • to extend credit to a valued customer
  • The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.