Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to extend
Participle: extended
Gerund: extending
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | extend |
| you | extend |
| he;she;it | extends |
| we | extend |
| you | extend |
| they | extend |
Perfect
| I | have extended |
| you | have extended |
| he;she;it | has extended |
| we | have extended |
| you | have extended |
| they | have extended |
Past
| I | extended |
| you | extended |
| he;she;it | extended |
| we | extended |
| you | extended |
| they | extended |
Pluperfect
| I | had extended |
| you | had extended |
| he;she;it | had extended |
| we | had extended |
| you | had extended |
| they | had extended |
Future
| I | will extend |
| you | will extend |
| he;she;it | will extend |
| we | will extend |
| you | will extend |
| they | will extend |
Future Perfect
| I | will have extended |
| you | will have extended |
| he;she;it | will have extended |
| we | will have extended |
| you | will have extended |
| they | will have extended |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | extend |
| you | extend |
| he;she;it | extend |
| we | extend |
| you | extend |
| they | extend |
Perfect
| I | have extended |
| you | have extended |
| he;she;it | have extended |
| we | have extended |
| you | have extended |
| they | have extended |
Imperfect
| I | extended |
| you | extended |
| he;she;it | extended |
| we | extended |
| you | extended |
| they | extended |
Pluperfect
| I | had extended |
| you | had extended |
| he;she;it | had extended |
| we | had extended |
| you | had extended |
| they | had extended |
Conditional
Present
| I | would extend |
| you | would extend |
| he;she;it | would extend |
| we | would extend |
| you | would extend |
| they | would extend |
Perfect
| I | would have extended |
| you | would have extended |
| he;she;it | would have extended |
| we | would have extended |
| you | would have extended |
| they | would have extended |
Imperative
| you | extend |
| we | Let's extend |
| you | extend |
Verbs conjugated like 'extend'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'extend'
entend,
expend,
atend,
attend,
coextend,
emend,
exceed,
expand,
intend,
obtend,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- procrastinate
- to make longer
- elongate, lengthen, produce, protract, stretch
- enlarge
- diffuse, continue, dilate, reach, expand
- bestow
- give, grant, impart, offer, yield
Antonyms
- to make shorter
- lengthen, shorten
- enlarge
- decrease, abridge, compress, condense
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1386, from Anglo-Fr.
estendre (1292), from L.
extendere "stretch out," from
ex- "out" +
tendere "to stretch" (see tenet).
Extent (c.1330) is older in Eng., from Anglo-Fr.
estente "valuation of land, stretch of land," from fem. pp. of O.Fr.
extendre "extend," from L.
extendere.
2. From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“to stretch out”). See: Middle English '
extenden', Latin '
extendō'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse with windows in the sides; having at the upper end a melancholy stove, at which three or four chilly stewards were warming their hands; while on either side, extending down its whole dreary length, was a long, long table, over each of which a rack, fixed to the low roof, and stuck full of drinking-glasses and cruet-stands, hinted dismally at rolling seas and heavy [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] than hot brandy-and-water, I procured a tumbler full without delay. It being impossible to stand or sit without holding on, they were all heaped together in one corner of a long sofa—a fixture extending entirely across the cabin—where they clung to each other in momentary expectation of being drowned. When I approached this place with my specific, and was about to administer it with many [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The town is built on the side of a hill, the highest point being commanded by a strong fortress, not yet quite finished. Several streets of good breadth and appearance extend from its summit to the water-side, and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. The market is abundantly supplied; and provisions are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of their deprivation. Several people were at work here; making brushes, mattresses, and so forth; and the cheerfulness, industry, and good order discernible in every other part of the building, extended to this department also.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘The whole of the succeeding year was passed in gratifying her eager inquiries for the names of every object which she could possibly handle; in exercising her in the use of the manual alphabet; in extending in every possible way her knowledge of the physical relations of things; and in proper care of her health.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the bend was full of ice, piled one cake over another, thus forming a temporary barrier to the descending ice, which lodged, and formed a great, undulating raft, filling up the whole river, and extending almost to the Kentucky shore.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] a very shining black oil-cloth, sundry lank, high-backed wood chairs, with some plaster images in resplendent colors on the mantel-shelf, above a very dimly-smoking grate; a long hard-wood settle extended its uneasy length by the chimney, and here Haley sat him down to meditate on the instability of human hopes and happiness in general.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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We sat here, looking silently at the row of little tables, which extended down both sides of the cabin, and listening to the rain as it dripped and pattered on the boat, and plashed with a dismal merriment in the water, until the arrival of the railway train, for whose [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The canal extends to the foot of the mountain, and there, of course, it stops; the passengers being conveyed across it by land carriage, and taken on afterwards by another canal boat, the counterpart of the first, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Cincinnati is honourably famous for its free schools, of which it has so many that no person 's child among its population can, by possibility, want the means of education, which are extended, upon an average, to four thousand pupils, annually. I was only present in one of these establishments during the hours of instruction. In the boys ’ department, which was full of little urchins [...]
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