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Verb: expend  ik'spend or ek'spend
  1. Utilize or spend available resources or supplies
    "this car expends a lot of gas";
    - consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use
     
  2. Pay out
    "expend money";
    - spend, drop

Derived forms: expended, expending, expends

Type of: pay

Encyclopedia: Expend