expend
The verb expend means to use. If you expend all your energy raking the leaves, you may be too tired to play hockey afterwards. Better pace yourself — you’ll never get all of the leaves on the ground, after all.
The verb expend means to spend or pay out. You can expend money, but you can also expend things like good will and time. As a voter, you can vote for or against the city’s plan to expend money on a new library building, but the city may be expending voter willingness to support the plan if the building goes over the budget. There is no point in building a library if they can’t afford to buy books!
Definitions of expend
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use up or consume fully
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abuse, misuse, pervert
change the inherent purpose or function of something
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abuse
use wrongly or improperly or excessively
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spare
use frugally or carefully
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occupy, take, use up
require (time or space)
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blow, squander, waste
spend thoughtlessly; throw away
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fracture
violate or abuse
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take in vain
use a name, such as God, without proper respect
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be
spend or use time
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burn
spend (significant amounts of money)
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pay out
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consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
use up (resources or materials)
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consume, squander, ware, waste
spend extravagantly
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afford
be able to spare or give up
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blow
spend lavishly or wastefully on
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trifle away, wanton, wanton away
spend wastefully
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underspend
spend at less than the normal rate
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misspend
spend (money or other resources) unwisely
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nickel-and-dime, penny-pinch
spend money frugally; spend as little as possible
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commit, invest, place, put
make an investment
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economise, economize, save
spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
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lay out
spend or invest
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piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away
waste time; spend one’s time idly or inefficiently
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misspend
spend time badly or unwisely
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run out
exhaust the supply of
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drain
deplete of resources
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indulge, luxuriate
enjoy to excess
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dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot
spend frivolously and unwisely
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luxuriate, wanton
become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
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burn, burn off, burn up
use up (energy)
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fund
invest money in government securities
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lavish, shower
expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
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overspend
spend at a high rate
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spend
spend completely
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tighten one’s belt
live frugally and use less resources
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fling, splurge
indulge oneself
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roll over
re-invest (a previous investment) into a similar fund or security
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shelter
invest (money) so that it is not taxable
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tie up
invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
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job, speculate
invest at a risk
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exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tire
deplete
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buy into
buy stocks or shares of a company
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pay
give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
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