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English verb: expend | |||
| 1. | expend (consumption) use up, consume fully | ||
| Samples | The legislature expended its time on school questions. | ||
| Examples | They expend the money | ||
| Synonyms | use | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abuse, abuse, blow, misuse, occupy, pervert, spare, squander, take, use up, waste | ||
| Entail | consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out | ||
| 2. | expend (possession) pay out | ||
| Samples | Spend money. | ||
| Synonyms | drop, spend | ||
| 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 | ||
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