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

1. transitive 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.
2. intransitive verb. To be laid out, used, or consumed.
3. intransitive verb. To pay out or disburse money.
4. verb. use up, consume fully

   "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

   Synonyms: use

5. verb. pay out

   "spend money"

   Synonyms: drop, spend

Synonyms

use, drop, spend

Common word forms

expends, expended, expender, expending, expendable

Words from these letters

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