Extend vs Scatter - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between extend and scatter

is that extend is to possess a certain extent while scatter is to occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

is that extend is to straighten (a limb) while scatter is to distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

(en verb)

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 extend sympathy to the suffering

To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

to extend liquors

(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

* enlarge * expand * increase * lengthen * stretch * widen

* extendible (adjective) * extensible (adjective) * extensive (adjective) * extension * extent

(en verb)

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

the police scattered the crowds

the crowd scattered

* Shakespeare

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

* Dryden

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

(physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).

To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

to scatter hopes or plans

* scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot