Definitions for expends

expends ex·pend

Spelling: [ik-spend]
IPA: /ɪkˈspɛnd/

Expends is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in expends (deenpsx).

Definitions for expends

verb (used with object)

  1. to use up:
  2. to pay out; disburse; spend.

Origin of expends

1400-50; late Middle English Latin expendere to weigh out, lay out, pay

Examples for expends

Reserve it for those who are your friends, and do not expend it on me.

You may not win a medal, but it will help you expend some calories while you watch.

Where had you learned its want, or acquired the taste to expend it?

As Carter writes, “Within the limits of the energy [Letterman] was now willing to expend, he was still trying.”

There had been little water, indeed, to expend on any toilet since leaving Winchester.

So old a man had no energy to expend in the indirections of haste.

You forget that he has twenty-five thousand dollars to expend.

The fatter we get, the more we need to eat, and the less energy we will expend.

How much ingenuity did he expend to detect what had no existence!

The assumption is that obesity is fundamentally caused merely by consuming more calories than our bodies choose to expend.

Word Value for expends
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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