Words Like EXPEND
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to EXPEND.
    
    
    
        
            26 Alternative Words Similar to expend
   
            
               
            
            
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        Misspend
    
    
         Verb       Hyponym
    
    
    
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        Underspend
    
    
         Verb       Hyponym
    
    
    
        
       
    
    
        1 examples of expend
           
        
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        they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of expend
           
        
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        To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend
    
    
    
 
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        To be laid out, used, or consumed.
    
    
    
 
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        To pay out or disburse money.
    
    
    
 
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        To lay out; spend:  expending tax revenues on government operations.  See Synonyms at spend.
    
    
    
 
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        To use up; consume: "Every effort seemed to expend her spirit's force”  ( George Meredith). 
    
    
    
 
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        To lay out; disburse; spend; pay out.
    
    
    
 
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        To consume by use; spend in using: as, to expend time, labor, or material; the oil of a lamp is expended in burning; water is expended in mechanical operations; the ammunition was entirely expended.
    
    
    
 
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        To consume or exhaust some resource.