expend

Expend is defined as to use up or spend.

(verb)

An example of expend is for a company to use up all of its resources.

See expend in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

Origin: ME expenden < L expendere, to weigh out, pay out < ex-, out + pendere, to weigh: see pendant

See expend in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb ex·pend·ed, ex·pend·ing, ex·pends

To lay out; spend: expending tax revenues on government operations. See Synonyms at spend.
To use up; consume: “Every effort seemed to expend her spirit's force” (George Meredith).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English expenden

Origin: , from Latin expendere, to pay out

Origin: : ex-, ex-

Origin: + pendere, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots

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