Movement
Synonyms for extend
Synonyms for extend: unfold, widen, offer, strain and stretch. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for extend
Interchangeable with extend, one per sense
Audited under extend's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one extend carries in that sense.
- unfoldverb, in the sense "extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length"
- widenverb, in the sense "extend in scope or range or area"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name extend as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under extend's own senses. The second reach extend from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
Extend the TV antenna.
The true synonym
unfold
Same sentence, swapped: Unfold the TV antenna.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for extend in the sentence quoted.
- strain
- gallop
- grain
extend in scope or range or area
Extend your backyard.
The true synonym
widen
Same sentence, swapped: Widen your backyard.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- strain
- gallop
- boost
Where extend turns up in the game
extend is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play extend
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so extend reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other movement words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. extend carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.