Category:Spend

Spend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] Etym: [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. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread isa. lv. 2.

2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I. . . am never loath to spend my judgment. Herbert.

3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an Estate in gaming or other vices.

4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; To spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.

5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the Violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.

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. He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South.

2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; To vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon.

3. To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap Spendeth into the grapes. Bacon.

4. (mining)

Defn: to break ground; to continue working.