SPEND

spend, expend, drop

(verb) pay out; “spend money”

spend

(verb) spend completely; “I spend my pocket money in two days”

spend, pass

(verb) use up a period of time in a specific way; “how are you spending your summer vacation?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)

(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

(dated) To squander.

To exhaust, to wear out.

To consume, to use up (time).

(dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

To be diffused; to spread.

(mining) To break ground; to continue working.

Noun

spend (countable and uncountable, plural spends)

Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.

(in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.

Discharged semen.

Vaginal discharge.

Anagrams

• pends

Source: Wiktionary

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Spend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] Etym: [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer.]

1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2.

2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert.

3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.

5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.

Spend, v. i.

1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South.

2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon.

3. To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon.

4. (Mining)

Definition: To break ground; to continue working.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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