Sekirov Dictionary

spend

/spɛnd/

verb 9
noun 4
forms 7

verb9

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to pay out money for things such as food or clothes
- I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
- He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
•
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment. — 1633
•
To consume, to use up (time).
- My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
- We spent the winter in the south of France.
•
To exhaust, to wear out.
- The violence of the waves was spent.
•
To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- Energy spends in the using of it.
(old-fashioned) To squander.
•
(old-fashioned) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
- The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
•
To be diffused; to spread.
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. — 1627
To break ground; to continue working.

noun4

•
Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
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[in the plural] Expenditures; money or pocket money.
- Total January spends by year — 2011
(slang) Discharged semen.
(slang) Vaginal discharge.

forms

spended · spent · spentest · spending · spendeth · spends · spendest

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