Dictionary Entry
expend
expend is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To be laid out, used, or consumed.
- 3intransitive verb
To pay out or disburse money.
- 4verb
use up, consume fully
"The legislature expended its time on school questions"
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- 5verb
pay out
"spend money"
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