To spend is to use all of a resource, to focus your energy on something or to give someone money.
(verb)See spend in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb spent, spending
Origin: ME spenden < OE spendan (in comp.) < ML spendere < L expendere: see expend
intransitive verb
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See spend in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb spent spent (spĕnt), spend·ing, spends verb, transitive
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Origin: Middle English spenden
Origin: , partly from Old English -spendan (from Latin expendēre, to expend; see expend)
Origin: and partly from Old French despendre, to weigh out; see dispense
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