'Spend' definitions:

Definition of 'spend'

From: WordNet
verb
Pass time in a specific way; "how are you spending your summer vacation?" [syn: spend, pass]
verb
Pay out; "spend money" [syn: spend, expend, drop]
verb
Spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"

Definition of 'Spend'

From: GCIDE
  • Spend \Spend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer.]
  • 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. [1913 Webster]
  • Spend thou that in the town. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? --Isa. lv. 2. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
  • I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. [1913 Webster]
  • We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. [1913 Webster]
  • Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Spend'

From: GCIDE
  • Spend \Spend\, v. i.
  • 1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. [1913 Webster]
  • He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. [1913 Webster]
  • The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To be diffused; to spread. [1913 Webster]
  • The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'spend'

From: Moby Thesaurus