1. Verb
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
2. Verb
To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
3. Verb
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4. Verb
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
5. Verb
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
6. Verb
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
7. Verb
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
8. Verb
To be diffused; to spread.
9. Verb
To break ground; to continue working.
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