Antonyms for expend

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ik-spend

Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈspɛnd

Definition of expend

Origin : early 15c., from Latin expendere "pay out, weigh out money," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + pendere "to pay, weigh" (see pendant). Related: Expended; expending.

verb exhaust; spend

Example sentences :

So old a man had no energy to expend in the indirections of haste.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

Reserve it for those who are your friends, and do not expend it on me.
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

You forget that he has twenty-five thousand dollars to expend.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

Where had you learned its want, or acquired the taste to expend it?
Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever

How much ingenuity did he expend to detect what had no existence!
Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever

There had been little water, indeed, to expend on any toilet since leaving Winchester.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

He did not expend nearly all the allowance which his father had granted him.
Extract from : « Rollo in Switzerland » by Jacob Abbott

Hannah might expend her energy in flat-ironing, and Josiah could turn the mangle.
Extract from : « Novel Notes » by Jerome K. Jerome

But do you suppose I am willing to expend what has been saved through your economy?
Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

I should have fired oftener, but was unwilling to expend more of my powder.
Extract from : « In the Wilds of Florida » by W.H.G. Kingston

Synonyms for expend

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