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expend

/ expend /

verb

verb Sense 1

use up, consume fully

"The legislature expended its time on school questions"

Kinds of:

pervert misuse abuse spare take

Derived:

consumption using up expenditure economic consumption usance

Entails:

consume eat up use up

See also:

consume eat up use up eat deplete

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

Somebody ----s somebody PP

verb Sense 2

pay out

"spend money"

Type of:

pay

Kinds of:

consume eat up use up eat deplete

Derived:

spender disburser expender outgo expenditure

Usage Patterns:

Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something

Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

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