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expend

[ik-spend]

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verb (used with object)

to use up: She expended energy, time, and care on her work.

to pay out; disburse; spend.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin expendere to weigh out, lay out, pay

Related forms

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

Can be confused: expand, expend (see synonym note at expand).

Synonyms
1. consume, empty. See spend.

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Example Sentences

Heavy people expend more energy when they fidget than do svelte people, because moving all that fat burns up a lot of calories.

Religion departments expend a great deal of effort in an attempt to justify their existence.

And then, apparently, they will have liberated more capital to expend on more reckless loans to ailing companies.

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Heavy people expend more energy when they fidget than do svelte people, because moving all that fat burns up a lot of calories.

Religion departments expend a great deal of effort in an attempt to justify their existence.

And then, apparently, they will have liberated more capital to expend on more reckless loans to ailing companies.

The researchers found that heavier birds did not expend as much energy as expected to carry the extra weight.

Treadmill tests show that humans expend only a quarter of the energy walking that chimps do.

There is a simple rule of thumb that can be applied toward multiple solutions: don't expend energy in order to dissipate energy.

Levine, an endocrinologist, has spent his career studying how humans expend energy.

Overweight occurs when people consume more calories than they expend.

They do not see it as their moral obligation and expend considerable resources to obfuscate the issues.

But they also expend a lot of time and effort keeping their alumni engaged.

In the process, the herd would expend precious energy and fat reserves needed for the long migration.

Cities in moderate climes fared better than those whose residents must expend more energy to cool and heat their homes.

Most leaders expend a lot of energy trying to stay in power.

They expend a great deal of effort and unfortunately achieve a minimum of appreciable effect.

If they don't, they need to be happy with the rewards that are commensurate with the effort they're willing to expend.

But he does not expend much energy on managing his unwieldy coalition in the legislature.

Smaller birds, such as songbirds, have few pneumatized bones because they weigh less and expend less energy in flight.

If it takes more energy to extract oil than it yields, no one is going to expend any effort into extracting it.

Klinsmann is trying to get his players to expend more offensive pressure, the way he did when he was a fleet forward.

And, of course, this forces the third party to expend funds in the defense.

Quite clearly, many of the male chimpanzees expend a lot of energy and run risks of serious injury in pursuit of high status.

If you could suck down a gallon of gasoline and then expend that energy on your bike, you figured out how far you could go.

Deahl and other directors say they expend far more effort making the food look authentic than they do glamorizing it.

Surely only carnivores expend so much energy so pointlessly.

Second, life does expend much more energy than non-living matter.

We are asked to expend pity and resentment towards society in the cause of a common thief.

We do expend time and money not to watch players kick each other brutally.

Actually, search is improving to the extent that you don't have to expend that much effort to find something.

After all, it's much easier to attack a village goat than to expend ten times the energy stalking wild prey.

Indeed, when it comes to walking, penguins expend twice as much.

It could potentially hurt her to expend the energy necessary to keep moving it along with all the others.

Low-rankers, meanwhile, must expend more time and energy to get food and mating opportunities.

Bloedel thought deeply about what he wanted and was willing to expend almost unlimited resources.

Remember, they can and will expend you at their whim.

Like men, women lose the ability to reproduce if they expend more in energy than they take in through food.

If the normal gait of a human is heel to toe, asking a human to use a different gait would naturally expend more energy.

The military can expect to expend quite a few of the craft in the upcoming months.

In the charitable ritual that has evolved, two sides expend energy, but only the sponsors' efforts directly aid the poor.

Students already make rational choices about how much effort to expend toward achieving a particular grade and staying in school.

It goes against evolution and common sense to expend any effort in propping up failed species in this manner.

He would expend his final breath to defend his daughter.

Our bodies expend lots of energy creating an environment in which a variety of cell types can flourish.

His sons said he once threw his back out while pumping push-ups to expend nervous energy on a day when they played.

Regardless of aircraft size, it is not unusual to expend a significant portion of the flight tests to optimize pilot feel forces.

Customers might not expend the energy to surf through all the merchandise to find items of interest each time they visit.

The effort you expend doing aerobic work on a treadmill or stationary bike is also captured.

Eat more calories than you expend and you'll gain weight".

Cars must carry their energy and expend energy to carry it, so the less weight per unit of energy, the better.

Schmidt said people would expend more calories if they had to get out of their cars to pick up their food.

Bush won re-election and declared that he intended to expend the political capital.

Those who consume more calories than they expend in energy will gain weight.

Kundera is saying, the powerfully inertial police apparatus doesn't have to expend the energy required to torture him.

Workers probably expend more time and effort on their long-term careers.

Bush won re-election and declared that he intended to expend his political capital.

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World English Dictionary

expend (ɪkˈspɛnd)

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

[C15: from Latin expendere, from pendere to weigh]

ex'pender

—n

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Word Origin & History

expend

early 15c., from L. expendere "pay out," from ex- "out" + pendere "to pay, weigh" (see pendant). Related: Expended; expending.

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