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expend

/ɪkˈspɛnd/

expend verb: to consume, exhaust (some resource).

Verb

expend (third-person singular simple present expends, present participle expending, simple past and past participle expended)

  1. (transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).
    • If my death might make this island happy […]
      I would expend it with all willingness.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon...1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

expend meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

expend in Tamil

செலவு செய்

expend in Urdu

استعمال کرنا, خرچ اٹھانا, خرچ کرنا, صرف کرنا

expend in Bengali

ব্যয় করা, খরচ করা, সময়, শক্তি

expend in Malayalam

ചെലവാക്കുക, ഉപയോഗിക്കുക, ധനവ്യയംചെയ്യുക
More languagesFewer languages
expend in Kannada
ಖರ್ಚುಮಾಡು, ವ್ಯಯಮಾಡು, ಬಳಸಿಬಿಡು, ಏನೂ ಉಳಿಯದಂತೆ ವ್ಯಯಿಸು

Examples of expend in a sentence

  • And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
  • Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.1962 May, Max Euwe, “Game of the Month”, in Chess Review:
  • To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Federal Railways' progress”, in Modern Railways, page 416:

All 22 example sentences with expend

Forms of expend

third-person singular presentexpends
present participleexpending
past participleexpended
pastexpended
second-person singular present (archaic)expendest
second-person singular past (archaic)expendedst
third-person singular present (archaic)expendeth

Past tense of expend: expended

Origin of expend

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.

Words formed from expend

Words that rhyme with expend

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about expend

What does expend mean?
Expend means to consume, exhaust (some resource).
What is expend in Tamil?
Expend in Tamil is செலவு செய். See Expend meaning in Tamil.
How do you use expend in a sentence?
And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge.
What part of speech is expend?
Expend is a verb.
How do you pronounce expend?
Expend is pronounced /ɪkˈspɛnd/.
What is the past tense of expend?
The past tense of expend is expended.

Words near expend in the dictionary

  1. expells
  2. expels
  3. expence
  4. expences
  5. expencive
  6. expend
  7. expendabilities
  8. expendability
  9. expendable
  10. expendableness
  11. expendables

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: expend (page history and authors); expend (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expend (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Expend (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expend (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expend (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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