Expended

Expended
Expend Ex*pend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Expending}.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, and cf. {Spend}.] To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. [1913 Webster]

If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • expended — ex·pend || ɪk spend v. spend; use up, consume …   English contemporary dictionary

  • expended — Actually paid out or disbursed. School Dist. v Smith, 82 Or 443, 161 P 706 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • gone expended spent — exhausted exhausted adj. 1. same as {burned out}, 1. [WordNet sense 1+3] Syn: burned out(prenominal), burnt out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, fatigued, played out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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