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extendingverbpresent participle of extend to make longerour guests from out of town extended their visit by a week dragging (out), drawing out, elongating, lengthening, outstretching, prolonging, protracting, stretching amplifying, enlarging, expanding, increasingattenuating, thinning abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, shortening decreasing, diminishing, lessening, reducingthickening to put before another for acceptance or considerationthe couple extended an invitation to join them for a get-together at their house after the concert giving, offering, proffering, tendering, trotting out posing, proposingholding outgiving in, submittingvolunteering running by(or running past) accepting, receiving, takingaccrediting, approbating, approving, authorizing, clearing, confirming, finalizing, formalizing, homologating, OK'ing(or okaying), ratifying, sanctioning, warrantingdeclining, denying, disallowing, disapproving, negativing, rejecting, turning down, vetoingrebuffing, rebutting, refusing, spurningretracting, withdrawingdisregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider areayou can extend that chaise longue so that it lies completely flat expanding, fanning (out), flaring (out), opening, outspreading, outstretching, spreading (out), stretching (out), unfolding, unfurling overspreading closing, contracting, folding compacting, compressing, condensing, reducing to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain directionour backyard extends all the way to that brook bearing, going, heading, leading, lying, running crossing, cutting, passingcoursing, following, spanning, traversing to make greater in size, amount, or numberembarked on a series of wars intended to extend his empire accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substancesthe company extends its ice cream with thickeners and other additives adulterating, cutting, diluting, lacing, sophisticating, thinning, watering down, weakening loadingbefouling, contaminating, corrupting, defiling, dirtying, envenoming, fouling, infecting, poisoning, polluting, soiling, spoiling, sullying, taintingcheapening, debasing, degradingmanipulating, misrepresenting, tampering (with)counterfeiting, faking, falsifying, fudgingdoctoring, spikingattenuating, moderating, qualifying, tempering enriching, fortifying, richening, strengthening fertilizing, lardingaugmenting, reinforcing(also reenforcing), supplementingdecontaminating, purifyingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, distilling, filtering, flushing, leaching, pasteurizing, purging, refiningbettering, enhancing, improvingcompacting, concentrating, condensing |