Synonyms for expend
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ik-spend |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈspɛnd |
Top 10 synonyms for expend Other synonyms for the word expend
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for expend
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