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expent

expent is the simple past and past participle 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...

Origin of expent

Probably influenced by spend→spent.

Questions about expent

What is expent the simple past and past participle of?
Expent is the simple past and past participle of expend.

Words near expent in the dictionary

  1. expensively
  2. expensiveness
  3. expensivenesses
  4. expensiver
  5. expensivest
  6. expent
  7. exper
  8. exper.
  9. expergefaction
  10. expergefactions
  11. experienc't

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Adapted from Wiktionary: expent (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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