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Spend

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

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Manner of action 30

Afford 76% connected

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Commit 76% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Deplete 76% connected

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Economize 76% connected

To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expend 76% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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Holiday 76% connected

A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

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Invest 76% connected

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

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Misspend 76% connected

To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.

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Piddle 76% connected

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Save 76% connected

The herb sage, or salvia.

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Serve 76% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Slum 76% connected

A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat;…

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Sojourn 76% connected

To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to de…

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Soldier 76% connected

One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.

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Squander 76% connected

To scatter; to disperse.

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Summer 76% connected

One who sums; one who casts up an account.

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Trifle 76% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

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Underspend 76% connected

To spend less than.

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Vacation 76% connected

The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

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Wanton 76% connected

Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

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Ware 76% connected

Wore.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Winter 76% connected

The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Deplete 76% connected

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expend 76% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Derivationally related 4

Outlay 74% connected

To lay out; to spread out; to display.

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Outlay 74% connected

To lay out; to spread out; to display.

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Spender 74% connected

One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

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Spender 74% connected

One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

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Synonym 3

Drop 92% connected

The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Expend 92% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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