Thesaurus: spend

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1. v. t. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
2. v. t. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
3. v. t. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4. v. t. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
5. v. t. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
6. v. i. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
7. v. i. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
8. v. i. To be diffused; to spread.
9. v. i. To break ground; to continue working.
10. v. use up a period of time in a specific way
11. v. spend completely
12. 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2. 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert. 3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices. 4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9. 5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles. 1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South. 2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon. 3. To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon. 4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working.