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to extend

to extend

15 3.5
To use all your energy or skill to try to do something
  • verb
  • /ɪkˈstɛnd/
translation icon : esforzarse
  • And that means we have to extend ourselves and go to where they are.
  • extend efforts
  • extend abilities

And that means we have to extend ourselves and go to where they are.

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Examples

  • The current study has extended these findings to children with and without hearing loss.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The present study extends the work of previous research in several ways.

    Academic text (2013)

  • You need to live to the capacity, you have to extend always.

    Stanford

  • We must train ourselves to extend the moment and learn to live.

    31 (2016)

  • These expectations extend to him regardless of his medical issues.

    Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)

  • Class meetings combine lecture, questions, and exercises designed to extend the lecture content.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The results of this study extended our knowledge of coping styles following stressful events in sport among Chinese athletes.

    Academic text (2008)

  • We've got a few back debts, we kind of over-extended ourselves.

    Lolita (1962)

  • Our gratitude is extended to Lowell Gaertner for his statistical advisement.

    Academic text (2006)

  • To achieve our goals, we must extend ourselves fully in every effort we make.

Synonyms

to strain
vsto extend
87 4.2

To use a lot of effort to do something difficult

focuses on using personal abilities and resources to utmost degree
to exert
vsto extend
33 4.1

Make a strong physical or mental effort

goes further, implying use of all resources to full capacity
to push to the limit
vsto extend
7 5.1

Make a person or thing work as hard as possible until they cannot keep going

aims to use abilities fully rather than merely test limits
to extend oneself
vsto extend
1 6.9

To make a big effort beyond your usual limits

uses all abilities and resources to the absolute limit

Antonyms

to neglect
256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

to underutilize
  • US
6 4.9

To use something less than its full ability

Idioms

to extend a hand
  • Informal
5 2.9

To offer help or friendship by reaching out your hand to someone

to extend an olive branch
  • Informal
2 4.2

Offer to make peace after an argument

Phrasal Verbs

to extend to
58 3.4

Reach up to a certain point or limit

to extend oneself
1 6.9

To make a big effort beyond your usual limits

How Hard

to overexert
4 6.5
to extend
15 3.5
to strain
87 4.2
to exert
33 4.1
to try
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

extend infinitive
extended past
extended past participle
extending present participle
extends third person singular

Morphology

extend = tend (semi-transparent) = ex + tend

Structurally clear as ex- + tend, but the 'exert to full capacity' sense is a figurative extension and may not be predictable from the common senses of 'tend'.

Etymology

The word extend comes from the Latin extendere, with ex- 'out' and tendere 'to stretch'. A helpful image is 'stretching' yourself to the limit, so to extend yourself means to use all your energy or ability.