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Extend
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.
(2):
(v. t.) To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
(3):
(v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.
(4):
(v. t.) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.
(5):
(v. t.) To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
(6):
(v. t.) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.
(7):
(v. t.) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Extend'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/extend.html. 1828.
