spend
spend is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 8 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert.
- 2.To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
- 3.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.
- 4.5. 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.
- 5.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.
- 6.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.
- 7.To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon.
- 8.(Mining) To break ground; to continue working.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- account
- advance
- always
- and
- answer
- answerable
- ante
- arrear
- bad
- bail
- bank
- bill
- bleed
- borrow
- borrower
- bribe
- bribery
- buy
- buyer
- capital
- caveat
- charge
- chargeable
- check
- circulation
- client
- clientele
- coemption
- complete
- constable
- contingent
- contract
- cost
- counter
- credit
- customer
- debit
- debitor
- debt
- debtor
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is spend.
- What is 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert called?
- What is to consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is to be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon called?
- What is to break ground; to continue working called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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