Spend

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To use up or put out; expend: spent an hour exercising.
  • v. To pay out (money).
  • v. To wear out; exhaust: The storm finally spent itself.
  • v. To pass (time) in a specified manner or place: spent their vacation in Paris.
  • v. To throw away; squander: spent all their resources on futile projects.
  • v. To give up (one's time or efforts, for example) to a cause; sacrifice.
  • verb-intransitive. To pay out or expend money.
  • verb-intransitive. To be exhausted or consumed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to pay out (money)
  • v. to exhaust, to wear out
  • v. to consume, to use up (time)
  • v. to have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually
  • n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
  • n. expenditures; money or pocket money.
  • n. Discharged semen
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with.
  • v. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
  • v. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust.
  • v. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away.
  • v. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away.
  • verb-intransitive. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything.
  • verb-intransitive. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish.
  • verb-intransitive. To be diffused; to spread.
  • verb-intransitive. To break ground; to continue working.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • To span; grasp with the hand or fingers.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. pay out
  • v. spend completely
  • v. pass time in a specific way
  • Verb Form
    spending    spends    spent   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    spent   
    Hyponym
    serve    slum    overwinter    sojourn    holiday    while away    soldier    winter    vacation    get through   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bestow    employ    consume    waste    squander    exhaust    vanish    spread    expend    pass   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    End    Friend    Mende    Wend    abend    amend    append    apprehend    ascend    attend   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    expenditure    budget    investment    revenue    saving    inflation    tax    consumption    cost    finance