Usually means: To lengthen, enlarge, or prolong.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. extend: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extend, extend: Wordnik
  7. extend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extend: Wiktionary
  9. extend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extend: Dictionary.com
  13. extend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Extend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. extend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. extend: Rhymezone
  19. extend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. extend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. extend: Free Dictionary
  22. extend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. extend: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. extend: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extend: Legal dictionary
  2. extend: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extend: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. extend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. extend: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. extend: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extend: Fiberglass Glossary

(Note: See extendability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To increase in extent.
verb:  (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
verb:  (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
verb:  (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
verb:  To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
verb:  (UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
noun:  Misspelling of extent. [A range of values or locations.]

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