| ADJECTIVE | all | extensible, extensile | capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out |
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| Meaning | capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out. | |
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| Example | "an extensible measuring rule" | |
| Synonym | extensile | |
| Narrower | protractile, protractible | able to be extended |
| protrusile, protrusible | capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | |
| Opposite | nonextensile, inextensible, nonprotractile | not extensile |
| Spanish | extensible | |
| Catalan | extensible | |
| Verbs | extend | thrust or extend out |
| extend | open or straighten out | |
| extend | extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | |
| extend | reach outward in space | |
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