Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
- 2transitive verb
To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
- 3transitive verb
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
- 4transitive verb
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
- 5transitive verb
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
- 6intransitive verb
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
- 7intransitive verb
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
- 8intransitive verb
To be diffused; to spread.
- 9intransitive verb
To break ground; to continue working.
- 10verb
pay out
"spend money"
- 11verb
spend completely
"I spend my pocket money in two days"
- 12verb
pass time in a specific way
"how are you spending your summer vacation?"
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