Spend

[spend] or [spɛnd]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) pay out; 'spend money'.

(verb.) spend completely; 'I spend my pocket money in two days'.

(verb.) pass time in a specific way; 'how are you spending your summer vacation?'.

杰德手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

(v. t.) To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

(v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

(v. t.) To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.

(v. t.) To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

(v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

(v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

(v. i.) To be diffused; to spread.

(v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.

編輯:桑德拉

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Expend, disburse, lay out.[2]. Waste, consume, exhaust, squander, dissipate, lavish, use up.[3]. Employ, devote, bestow, apply.[4]. Pass, lead.

v. n. [1]. Lay out money, incur expense.[2]. Vanish, be lost, be consumed.

德洛丽丝整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Bestow, waste, exhaust, squander, expend, lay_out, consume, disburse, lavish

ANT:Retain, save, hoard, accumulate, husband, economize

校對:朱莉娅

解釋/意思:

v.t. to expend or weigh out: to give for any purpose: to consume: to waste: to pass as time.—v.i. to make expense: to be lost wasted or dissipated: to emit milt semen &c.:—pr.p. spend′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. spent.—adj. Spen′dable that may be spent.—ns. Spend′all a spendthrift; Spen′der; Spen′ding; Spense,=Spence (q.v.).—adj. Spent exhausted: impotent: of fish exhausted by spawning."

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