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Spend \Spend\, v. i.
1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use,
waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily
spends freely.
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He spends as a person who knows that he must come to
a reckoning. --South.
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2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or
strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
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The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open
air. --Bacon.
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3. To be diffused; to spread.
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The vines that they use for wine are so often cut,
that their sap spendeth into the grapes. --Bacon.
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4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working.
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Spend \Spend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spent}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Spending}.] [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or
dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See {Pendant},
and cf. {Dispend}, {Expend}, {Spence}, {Spencer}.]
1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to
spend money for clothing.
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Spend thou that in the town. --Shak.
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Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread? --Isa. lv. 2.
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2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
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I . . . am never loath
To spend my judgment. --Herbert.
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3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to
spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
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4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a
day idly; to spend winter abroad.
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We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc.
9.
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5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away;
as, the violence of the waves was spent.
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Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
--Knolles.
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