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expend 音标拼音: [ɪksp'ɛnd] vt. 花费,消耗,支出 花费,消耗,支出 expend v 1: use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" [synonym: {use}, {expend}] 2: pay out; "spend money" [synonym: {spend}, {expend}, {drop}] 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. [1913 Webster] If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. i. 1. To be laid out, used, or consumed. [1913 Webster] 2. To pay out or disburse money. [1913 Webster] They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. --Macaulay . [1913 Webster] 75 Moby Thesaurus words for "expend":
ablate, absorb, assimilate, bestow, bleed white, blow, budget, burn up, consecrate to, consume, cost, cost out, dedicate to, deplete, devote, digest, disburse, disbursement, dish out, dispense, dissipate, distribute, drain, drain of resources, eat, eat up, employ, erode, exhaust, expenditure, finish, finish off, fork out, give, give over to, give to, go, go through, gobble, gobble up, impoverish, incur costs, ingest, invest, lay out, lose, open the purse, outlay, pass, pay, pay out, put in, put out, run through, sap, schedule, shell out, sink money in, spend, spill, splurge, squander, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, throw money around, use, use up, wash up, waste, waste away, wear away, while, while away, wile
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