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expends

/ɪkˈspɛndz/

expends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of expend.

Meaning of expend

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...

Words that rhyme with expends

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Questions about expends

What is expends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Expends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of expend.
How do you pronounce expends?
Expends is pronounced /ɪkˈspɛndz/.

Words near expends in the dictionary

  1. expendings
  2. expenditor
  3. expenditors
  4. expenditure
  5. expenditures
  6. expends
  7. expenny
  8. expensable
  9. expense
  10. expense account
  11. expense accounts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: expends (page history and authors); expend (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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