Extend and Grant

Extend

Extend verb - To make longer.

Grant is a synonym for extend in offer topic. In some cases you can use "Grant" instead a verb "Extend", when it comes to topics like give, bestow.

Grant

Grant verb - To give the ownership or benefit of (something) formally or publicly.
Usage example: by the power vested in me, I grant you the keys to the city

Extend is a synonym for grant in bestow topic. Sometimes you can use "Extend" instead a verb "Grant".

Nearby Words: granted, granting, grantee, grantor

Common collocations

ability extend ability grant ability
power extend power grant power
life extend life grant life
youth extend youth grant youth
Other words: protection, control, amount, effect, time, health, effects, magic, immortality, points, rights, powers, lives.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / The Order: 1886 The Ageless: It is made explicitly clear while the Blackwater might grant the ability to extend one's life and heal from even the most lethal of damage it does not make them immortal.
  • No Immortal Inertia In Stargate SG-1, while the Goa'uld cannot grant true Immortality to their hosts, they can greatly extend their lifespans through the use of a sarcophagus.
  • Western Animation / Count Duckula Rousing Speech: In the "Town Hall Terrors" episode, after stumbling onto a meeting about extending a railroad, Duckula gets caught up in the moment and invokes the trope, thus accidentally parlaying his grant for the crumbling Castle Duckula to having that railroad extend through the castle.
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