spend

About 27.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To pay out (money).

   I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.

2. verb To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
3. verb To squander.

   to spend an estate in gambling

4. verb To exhaust, to wear out.

   The violence of the waves was spent.

5. verb To consume, to use up (time).

   My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.

6. verb To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

   The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.

7. verb To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

   Energy spends in the using of it.

8. verb To be diffused; to spread.

Similar words

pass expend use up drop expense expenditure disburse provide buy pay

Often followed by

the a more their time some on it his much

Word family

spendable spender spenders spending spends spent