Definitions for spend

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Spelling: [spend]

IPA: /spɛnd/

Spend is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in spend (denps).

Definitions for spend

verb (used with object)

1. to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.):
2. to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding:
3. to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.:
4. to use up, consume, or exhaust:
5. to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.

verb (used without object)

1. to spend money, energy, time, etc.
2. Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted.

Origin of spend

1125-75; Middle English spenden, continuing Old English -spendan (in āspendan, forspendan to spend entirely or utterly) West Germanic Latin expendere to pay out, expend

Examples for spend

Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

Instead, I spend much of my time criticizing my fellow atheists.

Men who take from the poor daily interest for a drachma, and spend it in debauchery.

Speech, in this case, is our ability to spend money on a goofy entertainment.

And so to-night I am going to spend them, not prudently on bread, but prodigally on beer.

He is expected to spend the next few days closeted with lawyers and advisers at his home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.

They waste the time one should spend in making them come true.

"To come home and read, or spend a social evening with a friend," George answered.

He ran over in his mind the friends with whom he could spend the time agreeably.

Prosecutors wanted him to spend at least 10 years behind bars.