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Extended   /ɪkstˈɛndəd/  /ɪkstˈɛndɪd/   Listen
Extended

adjective
1.
Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted.  Synonyms: drawn-out, lengthy, prolonged, protracted.  "An extended discussion" , "A lengthy visit from her mother-in-law" , "A prolonged and bitter struggle" , "Protracted negotiations"
2.
Fully extended or stretched forth.  "His extended legs reached almost across the small room" , "Refused to accept the extended hand"
3.
Drawn out or made longer spatially.  Synonyms: elongated, lengthened, prolonged.  "Lengthened skirts are fashionable this year" , "The extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes" , "A prolonged black line across the page"
4.
Beyond the literal or primary sense.
5.
Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity.  Synonym: extensive.  "Extended farm lands" , "Surgeons with extended experience" , "They suffered extensive damage"


Extend

verb
(past & past part. extended; pres. part. extending)
1.
Extend in scope or range or area.  Synonyms: broaden, widen.  "Widen the range of applications" , "Broaden your horizon" , "Extend your backyard"
2.
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.  Synonyms: go, lead, pass, run.  "His knowledge doesn't go very far" , "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life" , "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
3.
Span an interval of distance, space or time.  Synonyms: continue, cover.  "The period covered the turn of the century" , "My land extends over the hills on the horizon" , "This farm covers some 200 acres" , "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"
4.
Make available; provide.  Synonym: offer.  "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"
5.
Thrust or extend out.  Synonyms: exsert, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out.  "Point a finger" , "Extend a hand" , "The bee exserted its sting"
6.
Reach outward in space.  Synonyms: poke out, reach out.
7.
Offer verbally.  Synonym: offer.  "He offered his sympathy"
8.
Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body.  Synonym: stretch.  "Extend your right arm above your head"
9.
Expand the influence of.  Synonym: expand.
10.
Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.  Synonyms: draw out, prolong, protract.  "She extended her visit by another day" , "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
11.
Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length.  Synonyms: stretch, stretch out, unfold.  "Stretch out that piece of cloth" , "Extend the TV antenna"
12.
Cause to move at full gallop.  Synonym: gallop.
13.
Open or straighten out; unbend.
14.
Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity.  Synonym: strain.  "Don't strain your mind too much"
15.
Prolong the time allowed for payment of.
16.
Continue or extend.  Synonym: carry.  "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"
17.
Increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance.  Synonym: stretch.  "Extend the casserole with a little rice"



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"Extended" Quotes from Famous Books



... inarticulate and backed a little. The man in the room leaned forward and rolled bloodshot eyes at her. Maria began at once. She had much of her mother's spirit, which, when it was aroused, balked at nothing. She pointed at Jessy, then she extended her small index-finger ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... West Indies, I inclosed my own ground, and built the house thereon now occupied by Collector Gather's widow, and the town, per consequence, was not called on for one penny of the cost, but saved so much of a wall as the length of mine extended—a part not less than a full third part of the whole. No doubt, all these great and useful public works were not done without money; but the town was then in great credit, and many persons were willing and ready to lend; for every thing was in a prosperous order, and we had a prospect of a vast ...
— The Provost • John Galt
... same proscription, they tell one another their sufferings. He who has money shares it with those who have none, he who has firmness imparts it to those who lack it. They exchange recollections, aspirations, hopes. They turn, their arms extended in the darkness towards those they have left behind. Oh! how happy they who think no more of us! Every man suffers and at times waxes wroth. The names of all the executioners are engraven in the memory ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo
... holiday troops with bright uniforms, trained only for display and carrying guns that were never discharged against a foe. They were a great body of veterans who had not slept under a roof for years, who had marched over countries more extended than those traversed by the Legions of Caesar, who had come from a hundred battle-fields on which they had left dead comrades more numerous than the living who now celebrated the final victory of peace. It was the remembrance of this which in all the glad rejoicing ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... several places on the Jones farm and on other farms in the neighborhood. They lunched on crackers and canned beans at a country store and made a more extended drive in the afternoon. ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins


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