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bespend

bespend verb: to expend; bestow; employ.

Verb

bespend (third-person singular simple present bespends, present participle bespending, simple past and past participle bespent)

  1. (transitive) To expend; bestow; employ.
    • Do those who bring into the world two or three brats with ugly noses to take their place,— do these help mankind more than the missionaries who oversee all men according to their power, what they do, how they bespend their lives, what, contrary to their duty, they neglect?”1910, Frederick William Bussell, Marcus Aurelius and the Later Stoics - Page 297
    • Over their sleep, convalescent of old woes, The native, barren grandeur of the wind, Schooled of the granite, salt, and sea, bespends A roaming testimony to their thoughts While tons of heavy waves oppress cold rocks.1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries - Page 606

Forms of bespend

third-person singular presentbespends
present participlebespending
past participlebespent
pastbespent

Origin of bespend

From be- (“on, over, about”) + spend.

Questions about bespend

What does bespend mean?
Bespend means to expend; bestow; employ.
What part of speech is bespend?
Bespend is a verb.
What is the past tense of bespend?
The past tense of bespend is bespent.

Words near bespend in the dictionary

  1. bespeeds
  2. bespell
  3. bespelled
  4. bespelling
  5. bespells
  6. bespend
  7. bespew
  8. bespewed
  9. bespewing
  10. bespews
  11. bespice

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