Spend

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  • intransitive verb. To use up or put out; expend.
  • intransitive verb. To pay out (money).
  • intransitive verb. To wear out; exhaust.
  • intransitive verb. To pass (time) in a specified manner or place.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To throw away; squander.
  • intransitive verb. To give up (one's time or efforts, for example) to a cause; sacrifice.
  • intransitive verb. To pay out or expend money.
  • intransitive verb. To be exhausted or consumed.
  • noun. An amount of money spent on something.
  • noun. The spending of money; expenditure.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To span; grasp with the hand or fingers.
  • To pay or give out for the satisfaction of need, or the gratification of desire; part with for some use or purpose; expend; lay out: used of money, or anything of exchangeable value.
  • To impart; confer; bestow for any reason; dispense.
  • To consume; use up; make away with; dispose of in using.
  • To pass; employ; while away: used of time, or of matters implying time.
  • To waste or wear out by use or action; incur the loss of. See phrase to spend a mast, below.
  • To exhaust of means, force, strength, contents, or the like; impoverish; enfeeble; only in the passive. See spent.
  • To cause the expenditure of; cost.
  • To pay or layout; make expenditure of money, means, strength, or anything of value.
  • To be lost or wasted; be dissipated or consumed; go to waste: as, the candles spend fast.
  • Specifically, to emit semen, milt, or spawn. See spent, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything.
  • intransitive verb. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish.
  • intransitive verb. To be diffused; to spread.
  • intransitive verb. To break ground; to continue working.
  • transitive verb. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with.
  • transitive verb. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
  • transitive verb. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust.
  • transitive verb. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away.
  • transitive verb. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to pay out (money)
  • verb. to exhaust, to wear out
  • verb. to consume, to use up (time)
  • verb. to have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually
  • noun. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
  • noun. expenditures; money or pocket money.
  • noun. Discharged semen
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. pay out
  • verb. spend completely
  • verb. pass time in a specific way
  • Word Usage
    "Don't make too big a fool of yourself, nor marry your tango teacher, but spend my million, Drusilla, _spend it_ -- and may God rest your soul!"
    Form
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    End  Friend  Mende  Wend  abend  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ablate  absorb  allot  assign  assimilate  
    variant
    spent  
    verb-form
    spending  spends  spent