spend

spend is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
2. transitive verb. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
3. transitive verb. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4. transitive verb. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
5. transitive verb. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
6. intransitive verb. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
7. intransitive verb. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
8. intransitive verb. To be diffused; to spread.
9. intransitive verb. To break ground; to continue working.
10. verb. pay out

    "spend money"

    Synonyms: drop, expend

11. verb. spend completely

    "I spend my pocket money in two days"

12. verb. pass time in a specific way

    "how are you spending your summer vacation?"

    Synonyms: pass

Synonyms

drop, expend, pass

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spend:

pends, psend

Common word forms

spends, spender, spendful, spending, spendable, spendless

Words from these letters

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