spend

verb transitive

[L. expendo; from the root of L. pando, pendeo, the primary sense of which is to strain, to open or spread; allied to span, pane, etc.]

pret. and pp. spent.

spend

To lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? Isaiah 55:2.

spend

To consume; to waste; to squander; as to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

spend

To consume; to exhaust. The provisions were spent, and the troops were in want.

spend

To bestow for any purpose; often with on or upon. It is folly to spend words in debate on trifles.

spend

To effuse.

spend

To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 217:73.

spend

To lay out; to exert or to waste; to wear away; as, to spend one’s strength.

spend

To exhaust of force; to waste; to wear away; as, a ball had spend its force. The violence of the waves was spent. Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.

spend

To exhaust of strength; to harass; to fatigue. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst- .

spend

verb intransitive

To make expense; to make disposition of money. He spends like a prudent man.

spend

To be lost or wasted; to vanish; to be dissipated. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.

spend

To prove in the use. -Butter spent as if it cam from the richer soil.

spend

To be consumed. Candles spend fast in a current of air Our provision spend rapidly.

spend

To be employed to any use. The vines they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.