Spend

Quick meaning: Spend is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).

More Meanings

1. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
2. To exhaust, to wear out.
3. To consume, to use up (time).
4. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
5. To be diffused; to spread.
6. (dated) To squander.
7. (dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

Example Sentences

to spend an estate in gambling

The violence of the waves was spent.

We spent the winter in the south of France.

I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.

Word Forms

• spends
• spending
• spent

Synonyms for spend

Depending on context, synonyms include pass, drop, expend.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pass, expend, drop, expense, expenditure, disburse.

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