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expend Verb

— If you expend energy, effort, resources, etc. on something, you use them for that purpose.

expend

— verb (= use) use up, consume fully The legislature expended its time on school questions — verb (= spend) pay out spend money

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expend English » English

spend consume use up use outlay pay out exhaust drop disburse deplete waste take purchase dispend consumption buy wipe out wear out wear off wear down wear away wear waste of money spend foolishly scuff rub down overfatigue misspend lay out lavish invest incinerate gluttonize give away get through fret fress frazzle fool away expense eat up eat away eat drain dissipate degrade cost burn bestow abrade

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Each of us has to expend our energy on something, you know.
They have sensory response, they absorb and expend energy.
Well, if you were to expend your energy helping with the road, instead of boring and shouting at them every few seconds you might be able to get somewhere.
However, the brain could be completely destroyed if we convert the entire ship to energy, aimed at the brain's cortex, and expend the energy in one mortal strike.
This way I don't have to expend any thought on what to wear.
I say again, expend all remaining in my perimeter!
Why should anyone expend time in such a search?
So stay put. Don't move around. Don't expend any unnecessary energy.
If we continue to expend our ammunition at this rate we may endanger our ability to support the advance.
If it will please you to show us so much gentry and good will as to expend your time with us a while for the supply and profit of our hope your visitation shall receive such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
But you expend too much time and energy.
Why expend cartridges for nothing?
I feel the same way. But I cannot expend any more resources on this.
And I'll expend extra energy.
SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO EXPEND ALL THAT ENERGY, YOU USE IT TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF HERE.
One of them accidentally plucked one of those laser boles they carry and had to expend the energy on that column.
This way I don't have to expend any thought on what to wear. I grab the next set on the rack.
Don't expend any unnecessary energy.
Wei! You expend all your mental effort to crush me.
I mean, I'm resolute in my own way, but I expend a lot of energy trying to manage my sixth sense.
For I mine own gained knowledge should profane if I would time expend with such a snipe but for my sport and profit.
But I cannot expend any more resources on this.
It may seem petty, but the school systems expend a lot of money.. toremovethesebig wadsofgum.
If you want to expend some of that surplus of manly urges you've got, do it in one of our establishments.
I did not expend all these resources only to see my profits shrink.
A few hostile primitives manage to destroy a Quark and you expend time and power chasing them!
You know how much mental energy I expend trying to picture women naked?
Wouldn't want to expend mental energy on mundane tasks like laundry, or emptying the rubbish and stuff, so you could do that for me.
Go ahead and expend all your ammunition, just like you did last time!
I feel the need to expend some frustrated energy.
To bring it to pass is my continual study and my most ardent desire, for which I am ready to expend my life, and my body, and my blood, so help me God!
They expend their energy only when it's absolutely necessary.

News and current affairs

But that bear was following the wisdom natural selection had programmed in its genes: food that is high in proteins and sugars is good for you, and the less energy you expend getting it, the better.
But I believe that the problem could easily be solved by, say, giving the World Bank an endowment of rich-country bonds and permitting it to expend the interest.
There is a long-recognized problem with such perfect markets: No one would want to expend any effort to figure out what oscillations in prices mean for the future.
African governments also must be willing to start small: expend a lot of effort to attract pilot projects in the hope of larger employment in the future.
Indeed, given competition from low-wage economies such as Bangladesh and Cambodia, Pakistan should abandon its focus on textiles altogether and expend much greater effort to develop its knowledge-based industries.

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