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| VERB | 1 | expend, use | Use up, consume fully |
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| 2 | expend, spend, drop | Pay out |
| Sounds | ihkspeh'nd |
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| Rhymes | amend, append, apprehend, and 47 more rhymes in ehnd... |
| Meaning | Use up, consume fully. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Model | They expend the money |
| Examples | "The legislature expended its time on school questions" |
| Synonyms | use |
| Narrower | pervert, misuse, abuse; abuse; spare; take, occupy, use up; waste, blow, squander |
| Entails | consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out |
| Entailed by | delight, enjoy, revel |
| Nouns | expenditure |
| Meaning | Pay out. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something on somebody |
| Synonyms | spend, drop |
| Broader | pay |
| Narrower | consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out; consume, squander, waste, ware; afford; blow; wanton, wanton away, trifle away; underspend; misspend; penny-pinch, nickel-and-dime; invest, put, commit, place; save, economize, economise; lay out |
| Adjectives | expensive |
| Nouns | expending, expenditure; expender; expenditure |
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