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expend

[ ik-spend ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to use up:

    She expended energy, time, and care on her work.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. to pay out; disburse; spend.


expend

/ ɪˈɛԻ /

verb

  1. to spend; disburse
  2. to consume or use up
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԻ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ·Իİ noun
  • v··Ի verb
  • e·Ի verb (used with object)
  • ܲe·ԻĻ adjective
  • ɱ-·ԻĻ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of expend1

1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin expendere “to weigh out, lay out, pay”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of expend1

C15: from Latin expendere, from pendere to weigh
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Synonym Study

See spend.
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Example Sentences

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Mara acknowledged there were times he asked to come out of games because he expended full energy in short spurts.

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Nature is being destroyed, violence rages around the globe and a handful of celebrities just expended innumerable carbon emissions during a two-second space flight for little more than a glorified press opportunity.

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She also called out the discrepancies between the environmental messaging surrounding the flight and the resources expended to send the women to space.

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Yet decades of expending money and energy hasn’t brought them to fruition, he said.

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After expending so much blood, sweat and tears to reach the majors, their reward was a single yellowed newspaper box score with their name in it.

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