expend

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“I weigh; I pay out”). Doublet of spend.

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛnd/, /ɛkˈspɛnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd

expend (third-person singular simple present expends, present participle expending, simple past and past participle expended)

1. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part 2, act 3, scene 1:

     If my death might make this island happy […]

     I would expend it with all willingness.

2. (transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse

• expent