expend

[ex·pend]

The verb expend means to use. If you expend all your energy raking the leaves, you may be too tired to play hockey afterwards. Better pace yourself you'll never get all of the leaves on the ground, after all.

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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.

Verb
use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

Verb
pay out; "spend money"

v. t.
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.

v. i.
To be laid out, used, or consumed.

v. i.
To pay out or disburse money.

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.

Expend

Ex*pend", v. i. 1. To be laid out, used, or consumed. 2. To pay out or disburse money.

They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.

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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.

To be laid out, used, or consumed.

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Usage Examples

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.