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EXPEND
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
Etymology
Verb
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
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