单词 | re-extend |
释义 | re-extendv. transitive. To extend again or further. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Restendre, to reextend, or to reinlarge. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. xxxi. 37 We could afterwards also, when she re-extended the stump, clearly perceive it..to be tubulous and hollow. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire II. xxiii. 70 Until it has had sufficient time to re-extend its roots, in the same ratio will be its productiveness. 1831 T. Hope Ess. Origin Man III. 301 The Portuguese..first made the power of Europe re-extend over the realms of Asia. 1882 H. Spencer Polit. Inst. in Princ. Sociol. III. 750 When, as at home, an extended franchise, very soon re-extended, vastly augments the mass of those who [etc.]. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Aug. c1 A man whose prison sentence had been extended and re-extended because he was continuously in fights. 2000 Timmins (Ont.) Daily Press (Nexis) 27 Jan. 1 [He] has launched a petition requesting the city to re-extend the bus route. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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