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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: empty, consume

  2. to pay out; disburse; spend.


expend

/ ɪkˈspɛnd /

verb

  1. to spend; disburse
  2. to consume or use up


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Derived Forms

  • exˈpender, noun

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Other Words From

  • ex·pender noun
  • over·ex·pend verb
  • preex·pend verb (used with object)
  • unex·pended adjective
  • well-ex·pended 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

You may not win a medal, but it will help you expend some calories while you watch.

The assumption is that obesity is fundamentally caused merely by consuming more calories than our bodies choose to expend.

The fatter we get, the more we need to eat, and the less energy we will expend.

As Carter writes, “Within the limits of the energy [Letterman] was now willing to expend, he was still trying.”

We were both to look to Fraser, Trenholm & Co., for all the money we were to expend, as indeed were all the diplomatic agents.

But Peter and Sogrange were both of them too wise to expend any more of their strength in a useless struggle.

Mind that none of my nephews or nieces expend any fraction of their guineas on presents for me.

He was therefore naturally anxious not to expend more than was absolutely necessary in defraying his passage.

Any individual who has time and patience to expend ad libitum, cannot desire a fairer field of exercise than the ‘Bibliotheca.’

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