1. Make something longer, larger, or able to reach farther in space or time.
2. Offer or communicate something such as an invitation, welcome, or sympathy.
3. Continue or spread across a distance, area, or set of cases.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- extend a deadline
- extend a corridor
On the page
The committee extended the deadline by two weeks.
Nearby words
Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- extend
- Past tense
- extended
- Past participle
- extended
- Present participle
- extending
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- extend
- Present continuous
- am/is/are extending
- Present perfect
- have/has extended
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been extending
- Past
- extended
- Past continuous
- was/were extending
- Past perfect
- had extended
- Past perfect continuous
- had been extending
- Future
- will extend
- Future continuous
- will be extending
- Future perfect
- will have extended
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been extending
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: extend; extends; extended; extended; extending Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: extends.
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