Extend vs Perish - What's the difference?
extend | perish |
To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
To die; to cease to live.
* 1719 ,
(obsolete) To cause to perish.
In lang=en terms the difference between extend and perish
is that extend is to straighten (a limb) while perish is to die; to cease to live.As verbs the difference between extend and perish
is that extend is to increase in extent while perish is to pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.extend
English
Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors
Synonyms
* enlarge * expand * increase * lengthen * stretch * widenDerived terms
* extendible (adjective) * extensible (adjective) * extensive (adjective) * extension * extentAnagrams
*perish
English
Verb
(es)- ...the ship struck upon a sand, and ... the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
- (Francis Bacon)
