Expend

Quick meaning: Expend is a verb meaning (transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).

Meaning

(transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).

Example Sentences

Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.

If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness.

To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.

So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.

Word Forms

• expends
• expending
• expended
• expendest
• expendedst
• expendeth

Synonyms for expend

Depending on context, synonyms include use, drop, spend.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include use, spend, drop, exert, engage, invert.

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