Synonyms of the word

protract

• v. To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
• v. To use a protractor.
• v. (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
• v. To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
• v. To extend; to protrude.

extend

• v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
• v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
• v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
• v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
• v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
• v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
• v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

lengthen

• v. (transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of.
• v. (intransitive) To become longer.

prolong

• v. (transitive) To extend in space or length.
• v. (transitive) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
• v. (transitive) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.