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spended

spended is the simple past and past participle of spend.

Meaning of spend

Verb

spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)

  1. (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
    • I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
    Synonyms:
    outlay
  2. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
    • I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.[1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis...
  3. (dated) To squander.
    • to spend an estate in gambling
  4. To exhaust, to wear out.
    • The violence of the waves was spent.
  5. To consume, to use up (time).
    • My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
  6. (ambitransitive, dated) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
    • The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.

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Questions about spended

What is spended the simple past and past participle of?
Spended is the simple past and past participle of spend.

Words near spended in the dictionary

  1. spendaholics
  2. spendall
  3. spendalls
  4. spendathon
  5. spendathons
  6. spended
  7. spender
  8. Spenderfic
  9. Spenderian
  10. spenders
  11. spendest

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