Spend

[spend] or [spɛnd]

Definition

(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?'.

Typed by Jed--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Checker: Sondra

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Checked by Delores

Synonyms and Antonyms

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

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

Edited by Julia

Definition

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."

Typed by Jeanette

Examples

I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in your room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
To me it was, and ever must be an enigma, how they contrived to spend so much time in doing so little. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
The 'Merrikin gov'ment will never give him up, ven vunce they find as he's got money to spend, Sammy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
My dear Gerty, I always understand how people can spend much more money--never how they can spend any less! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Stay here and dine, stay here and help us to spend our last evening with you as happily, as like our first evenings, as we can. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
If you always spent money in that way, no one would blame you, said Jo warmly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
All was acknowledged, and half the night spent in conversation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
There's a friend of mine, sir, that had the intention of spending the evening with me when I gave you up--much against my will--for the night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Your friend is spending her vacation in travelling, I hear? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
I asked him presently whether he had been spending his half-holiday up and down town? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Of course I understand--he spends it on living with the rich. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
It appears that he spends but little time at his toilet, or he would arrange it with more taste. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Spends a deal of money on his dress, ma'am. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Mr. Jellyby spends his evenings at her new house with his head against the wall as he used to do in her old one. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
He that spends a groat a day idly, spends idly above six pounds a year, which is the price for the use of one hundred pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
One man spends his fortune in one way, and another in another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Bless you, I don't spend it, it spends itself somehow, and is gone before I know it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Editor: William