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expend
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" [syn: use ] pay out; "spend money" [syn: spend , drop ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended ; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending .] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise , and cf. Spend .] To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN amount ▪ Carers expended a tremendous amount of time and energy in this role. ▪ Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity. ▪ Attempts to reconcile these ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin expendere "pay out, weigh out money," from ex- "out" (see ex- ) + pendere "to pay, weigh" (see pendant ). Related: Expended ; expending .
Usage examples of expend.
But having got rid of the thing, Alsa was part of the past, expendable, perhaps already expended.
Event lasteth among men the space of one cycle of years, and after that a fresh Illusion springeth to befool mankind, and the Seven must expend the concluding half-cycle in preparing the edge of the Sword for a new mastery.
If a Strigoi cannot expend the required magic points it will fall into a cataleptic state and unable to use any of its powers.
But at the time, his only impressions as he came down the shuttle ramp in the smoke-dimmed early morning sun were of ravaged cityscape, the fighters swooping overhead as they expended their last missiles covering the landing and, above all, the sounds of battle.
In several other cases, for instance, when a leaf after describing during the day one or more fairly regular ellipses, zigzags much in the evening, it appears as if energy was being expended, so that the great evening rise or fall might coincide with the period of the day proper for this movement.
They are holding her level of sexual expression low so that she does not expend excessive energy in orgasm.
It is a well-established physiological fact, that during the wakeful hours the vital energies are being expended, the powers of life diminished, and, if wakefulness is continued beyond a certain limit, the system becomes enfeebled and death is the result.
The impression forced on our minds was that the leaf was expending superfluous movement, so that the great nocturnal rise might not occur at too early an hour.
Thereby he ingests the life-force of the woman without expending any of his own.
Japanese air forces so completely controlled the air over Manila Bay that reinforcements could not be brought in by sea, and the r7s fleeted up from Mindanao were soon expended.
The king and queen were badly weakened by the last Gigantine War, had expended almost all their energy to hold the fabric of the realm together.
As soon as the final arrows were expended, they moved down to reclaim them from the dead beasts, while the skinners came behind them like gorecrows to a battle scene.
We can only hope that Grome expends all his energy and that the ship survives, as it might survive a natural storm at sea.
His mental activity, up to the age of seventy-three, is as prodigious as the activity which he had expended in living a multiform and incalculable life.
But I feel certain that your father had already expended a great deal of money with that learned man.