expend
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 6
/ɪkˈspɛnd/
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/ɪkˈspɛnd/ · /ɛkˈspɛnd/
Definition of expend
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To consume, exhaust (some resource).
“If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness.”
“So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.”
“Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.”
“To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.
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