use, expend
(verb) use up, consume fully; “The legislature expended its time on school questions”
spend, expend, drop
(verb) pay out; “spend money”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
expend (third-person singular simple present expends, present participle expending, simple past and past participle expended)
(transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
(transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*pend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.] Etym: [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.]
Definition: 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. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. Shak.
Ex*pend", v. i.
1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.
2. To pay out or disburse money. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 December 2024
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
