expend

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verb

1. use up, consume fully (Freq. 7)
- The legislature expended its time on school questions
• Syn:
use
• See Also:
use up (for: use)
• Derivationally related forms:
expenditure, use (for: use)
• Hyponyms:
pervert, misuse, abuse, spare, take,
occupy, use up, waste, blow, squander
• Entailment:
consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete,
exhaust, run through, wipe out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They expend the money
2. pay out (Freq. 2)
- spend money
• Syn:
spend, drop
• Derivationally related forms:
expensive, expender, expenditure, expending, spender (for: spend), spending (for: spend)
• Hypernyms:
pay
• Hyponyms:
consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete,
exhaust, run through, wipe out, squander, waste, ware,
afford, blow, wanton, wanton away, trifle away, underspend,
misspend, penny-pinch, nickel-and-dime, invest, put, commit,
place, save, economize, economise, lay out, piddle,
piddle away, trifle
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something on somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  spend, drop, use