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(transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
to extend sympathy to the suffering
to extend credit to a valued customer
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
1894, Fred Grundy, “Management of Fall Pigs”, in The American Agriculturist Volume 54:
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.
1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, page 155:
[…] 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.
(UK,law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
(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.
Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.
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