Cover
Cover verb - Span an interval of distance, space or time.
Usage example: The period covered the turn of the century
Extend
Extend verb - Span an interval of distance, space or time.
Usage example: My land extends over the hills on the horizon
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- CCR did extend the song to over eight minutes, something that John Fogerty said was due to the cover being made for a Progressive Rock radio station.
Source: Covered Up - She runs a cover operation as a nightclub in Hamburg, where her responsibilities as a hostess extend to singing for her patrons. Badly.
Source: Giftedly Bad - Seraphim, Cherubim, Devas, Fravashi, and Yakshas, extend thy arms to cover us, hear us and convey our prayer to the Lord Creator.
Source: Interfaith Smoothie
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Extend and Cover. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cover/extend
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