extend oneself

1. 1.

   strain to the utmost

   Broaderstrive

Questions about extend oneself

What does extend oneself mean?

extend oneself means "strain to the utmost".

Is extend oneself a common word?

extend oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.