SPENDS
Noun
spends
plural of spend
Verb
spends
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spend
Source: Wiktionary
SPEND
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