English to English
expend
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verb (v)
- use up, consume fully(verb.consumption)Example:
The legislature expended its time on school questions.
source: wordnet30 - To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.(verb)source: webster1913
- To be laid out, used, or consumed.(verb)source: webster1913