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English verb: spend | |||
| 1. | spend (stative) pass time in a specific way | ||
| Samples | How are you spending your summer vacation?. | ||
| Examples | They spend a long time | ||
| Synonyms | pass | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | do, get through, holiday, overwinter, serve, slum, sojourn, soldier, summer, vacation, weekend, while away, winter | ||
| 2. | spend (possession) pay out | ||
| Samples | Spend money. | ||
| Examples | They spend money on their grandchild, They spend the money | ||
| Synonyms | drop, expend | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something on somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pay | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | afford, blow, commit, consume, consume, deplete, eat, eat up, economise, economize, exhaust, invest, lay out, misspend, misspend, nickel-and-dime, penny-pinch, piddle, piddle away, place, put, run through, save, squander, trifle, trifle away, underspend, use up, wanton, wanton, wanton away, wanton away, ware, waste, wipe out | ||
| 3. | spend (possession) spend completely | ||
| Samples | I spend my pocket money in two days. | ||
| Examples | They spend the money | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something on somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | overspend, underspend | ||
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