Crossword clues for expending
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 by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
If my death might make this island happy . . .
I would expend it with all willingness.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of expend English)
WordNet
n. the act of spending money for goods or services [syn: expenditure]
Usage examples of "expending".
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.