Definitions for expend

expend ex·pend

Spelling: [ik-spend]
IPA: /ɪkˈspɛnd/

Expend is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in expend (deenpx).

Definitions for expend

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of expend

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

Examples for expend

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for expend
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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