extend

Etymology

From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“I stretch out”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
2. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
   The desert extended for miles in all directions.
3. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
4. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
6. (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
   to extend sympathy to the suffering
   to extend credit to a valued customer
7. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
   The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water. 1894, Fred Grundy, “Management of Fall Pigs”, in The American Agriculturist Volume 54
   […] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper. 1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, page 155
8. (UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. (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.
   The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
10. (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
    Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended. 1993, The Leatherneck, volume 76, page xxxvi

noun

1. Misspelling of extent.