spend
/spɛnd/ verb A1- To pay out (money). · I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.· He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- To squander. · to spend an estate in gambling
- To exhaust, to wear out. · The violence of the waves was spent.
- To consume, to use up (time). · My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.· We spent the winter in the south of France.
- To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually. · The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
- To waste or wear away; to be consumed. · Energy spends in the using of it.
- To be diffused; to spread.
He/she/it spends · Past spent · Past participle spent · -ing form spending
Verb forms
- Base form
- spend
- He/she/it
- spends
- Past
- spent
- Past participle
- spent
- -ing form
- spending
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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He had spent the whole afternoon at the Manor House in consultation with his two colleagues, and returned about five with a ravenous appetite for a high tea which I had ordered for him.
He neither rode nor shot, but spent his days in wandering round the old village with his pipe in his mouth, or in driving with his host, or in his absence with his hostess, over the beautiful countryside.
I will not spend _my_ hours in running after my neighbours every time they go away and come back again.”
They kept this day as a holiday, then and ever after, and spent the time in feasting and dancing.
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