'Spend' definitions:
Definition of 'spend'
From: WordNet
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
- ablate,
- absorb,
- allot,
- assign,
- assimilate,
- attend to business,
- be exposed to,
- be subjected to,
- bestow,
- bleed white,
- blow,
- budget,
- burn up,
- busy,
- consecrate to,
- consume,
- contribute,
- cost,
- cost out,
- dedicate to,
- deplete,
- devote,
- digest,
- disburse,
- dish out,
- dissipate,
- drain,
- drain of resources,
- drop,
- eat,
- eat up,
- employ,
- encounter,
- endure,
- engage,
- erode,
- exhaust,
- expend,
- experience,
- feel,
- finish,
- finish off,
- fork out,
- fritter away,
- give,
- give over to,
- give to,
- go,
- go through,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- hand out,
- have,
- impoverish,
- incur costs,
- ingest,
- invest,
- know,
- labor under,
- lavish,
- lay out,
- lose,
- meet,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- mind the store,
- occupy,
- open the purse,
- outlay,
- pass,
- pass the time,
- pass through,
- pay,
- pay out,
- prodigal,
- profligate,
- put in,
- put out,
- run,
- run through,
- run up against,
- schedule,
- shell out,
- sink money in,
- spend the time,
- spender,
- spill,
- splurge,
- squander,
- squanderer,
- stand under,
- suck dry,
- suffer,
- sustain,
- swallow,
- swallow up,
- taste,
- throw away,
- throw money around,
- undergo,
- use up,
- waste,
- waste away,
- waster,
- wastethrift,
- wastrel,
- wear away,
- while,
- while away,
- wile