expend
/ɪkˈspɛnd/ verb C1- To consume, exhaust (some resource).
Plural expend · He/she/it expends · Past expended · Past participle expended · -ing form expending
Verb forms
- Base form
- expend
- He/she/it
- expends
- Past
- expended
- Past participle
- expended
- -ing form
- expending
From the library
“Well,” pursued Caderousse, “can you without expending one sou, put me in the way of getting fifteen thousand francs?
There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.
His ten dollars, discreetly expended, would enable the two to dine very well indeed.
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