Extend
Extend verb - To make longer.
Usage example: our guests from out of town extended their visit by a week
Thin
Thin verb - To alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances.
Usage example: thinned the cream with milk but didn't tell anyone
Common collocations
| protection | extend protection | thin protection |
Both words in one sentence
- Elves in World of Warcraft have highly improbable eyebrows that extend conspicuously beyond their faces, yet are still rather thin.
Source: Big Ol Eyebrows / Video Games -
Creepy Long Fingers: The Virals' fingers grow and extend into long, thin claws.
Source: Literature / The Passage
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Thin and Extend. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/extend/thin
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