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Spend   /spɛnd/   Listen
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Spend  v. t.  (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)  
1.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. "Spend thou that in the town." "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?"
2.
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. "I... am never loath To spend my judgment."
3.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4.
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. "We spend our years as a tale that is told."
5.
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. "Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst."


Spend  v. i.  (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)  
1.
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. "He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning."
2.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. "The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air."
3.
To be diffused; to spread. "The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes."
4.
(Mining) To break ground; to continue working.





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"Spend" Quotes from Famous Books



... of its desolation, my friend Tonnison and I had elected to spend our vacation there. He had stumbled on the place by mere chance the year previously, during the course of a long walking tour, and discovered the possibilities for the angler in a small and unnamed river that runs past the ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... rising in the morning the hunter, standing over the fire, addresses it as the "Ancient White." rubbing his hands together while repeating the prayer. He then sets out for the hunting ground, where he expects to spend the day, and on reaching it he shoots away the short arrow at random, without attempting to trace its flight. There is of course some significance attached to this action and perhaps an accompanying prayer, but no further information upon this point was obtainable. Having ...
— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney
... give me a day—a day that is to belong exclusively to myself; and on that day we will forget the cares of royalty, and only remember that we are a pair of happy young lovers. Of course, we shall not spend that day in Berlin, nor in Parez either; but like two merry birds, we will fly far, far away to my home in Mecklenburg, to the paradise of my early years—to the castle of Hohenzieritz; and no one shall know any thing ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... her astonishingly in her efforts to escape the rigors of school discipline. Just when she was forbidden to leave Miss Waring's to spend nights and Sundays at Mrs. Owen's, her mother came to town and opportunely (for Marian) fell ill, at the Whitcomb. Mrs. Bassett was cruising languidly toward the sombre coasts of Neurasthenia, and though she was under the supervision of a trained nurse, Marian made ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... Trella planned to spend a few days resting in her employer's spacious home, and then to take a short vacation before resuming her duties as his confidential secretary. The next morning when she came down from her room, a change had ...
— The Jupiter Weapon • Charles Louis Fontenay


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