expend

1 use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" [syn: use]

2 pay out; "spend money" [syn: spend, drop]

English

Pronunciation

Verb

1. To consume or exhaust some resource.
2. In the context of "transitive|rare": To spend or disburse money.

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