expend

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expend
v. spend; use up, consume

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expend

Verb
1. use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"
(synonym) use
(hyponym) pervert, misuse, abuse
(entail) consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(derivation) consumption, using up, expenditure
2. pay out; "spend money"
(synonym) spend, drop
(hypernym) pay
(hyponym) consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(derivation) spender, disburser, expender


Babylon English-CzechDownload this dictionary
expend
v. vynaložit; spotřebovat; strávit

Babylon English-PolishDownload this dictionary
expend
Czas. poświęcać; wydatkować

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Expend
(v. t.)
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
  
 
(v. i.)
To pay out or disburse money.
  
 
(v. i.)
To be laid out, used, or consumed.
  

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About