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spend

Pronunciation: /spɛnd/

The English word “spend” has 13 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To pay out (money).
  2. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
  3. To squander.
  4. To exhaust, to wear out.
  5. To consume, to use up (time).
  6. To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
  7. To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
  8. To be diffused; to spread.
  9. To break ground; to continue working.

noun

  1. Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
  2. Expenditures; money or pocket money.
  3. Discharged semen.
  4. Vaginal discharge.

Etymology

From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to…

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