Past tense of expend
regular verb
The past tense of expend is expended. The past participle is also expended.
Forms of expend
| Base form (V1) | expend /ɪkˈspɛnd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | expended /ɪkˈspɛndɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | expended /ɪkˈspɛndɪd/ |
| Present participle | expending |
| Third person singular | expends /ɪkˈspɛndz/ |
Expended 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
- 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
- They expended a lot of shoe-leather in hunting down every lead.From the entry shoe-leather
- Recent work on late antique Latin literature has expended much energy in attempts to define a period.2019, Philip Hardie, Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, University of California Press, page 223. From the entry late antique
- On a global level, the potential adipocentric beneficial effects are expended into systemic effects.2015 August 3, Yue Wang, Feiruo Huang, “N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Inflammation in Obesity: Local Effect and Systemic Benefit”…. From the entry adipocentric
Meaning of expend
- verb To consume, exhaust (some resource).
Questions about the past tense of expend
- What is the past tense of expend?
- The past tense of expend is expended.
- What is the past participle of expend?
- The past participle of expend is expended.
- Is expend a regular or irregular verb?
- Expend is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: expend (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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