extend

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/ɛkˈstɛnd/

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Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.
1964, Jen Yu-ti [任育地], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 165
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
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

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