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expended

/ɪkˈspɛndɪd/ adjective C1
  1. Spent; used up; exhausted.
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His ten dollars, discreetly expended, would enable the two to dine very well indeed.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 29 · C1
Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 8 · B2
There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 394 · C1
“By the way,” said the major, “you know I have only the 2,000 francs which the Abbé Busoni sent me; this sum I have expended upon travelling expenses, and——”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 588 · C1

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