Spend

Definition of spend:

To make expense; to vanish; to be dissipated; to be consumed.
To lay out, as money; expend; squander; to exhaust by using; as, his violence spent itself; consume.
To expend or weigh out: to give for any purpose: to consume: to waste: to pass, as time.
To expend; exhaust; consume; occupy, as time.
To pay out, as money, in making purchases.
To squander; waste.
To pass or employ, as time.
To exhaust; use up.
To incur expense; to waste away.
To make expense: to be dissipated:- pr. p. spending; pa. t. and pa. p. spent.
spend completely; " I spend my pocket money in two days"
pass ( time) in a specific way; " How are you spending your summer vacation?"
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
To be diffused; to spread.
Seminal ejaculation.
To pay out money.
To waste or wear away.
To layout; to dispose of; to part with; to consume; to waste; to pass, as time; to exhaust.
To lay out; to dispose of; to consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; to fatigue; to pass, as time; to exert or exhaust, as force or strength; to be lost or wasted; to be consumed.
Spending.
SPENDER.
Spent.

Usage examples for spend

And he let her spend any money she liked on her dress.... Orientations by William Somerset Maugham
" I came to spend a little while alone in this sweet place, but I will go back to the house if you wish it," she replied. The Good Time Coming by T. S. Arthur
Go spend this money carefully. Fifty Fabulous Fables by Lida Brown McMurry
This one thing you'll know for certain- the more you spend, the more you'll be able to make. The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair

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Usage examples for spend