Synonyms for expend
ɪkˈspɛndex·pend

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1. expend

   Synonyms:
   spend, disburse, lay out, waste, consume, use

   Antonyms:
   save, husband, economize

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1. use, expendverb

   use up, consume fully

   "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

   Synonyms:
   employ, use, habituate, utilise, spend, drop, practice, apply, utilize

2. spend, expend, dropverb

   pay out

   "spend money"

   Synonyms:
   unload, fell, dribble, send packing, drop off, dismiss, drop down, sink, drip, degenerate, deteriorate, overleap, strike down, leave out, throw, cast, cut down, pretermit, put down, neglect, devolve, send away, set down, flatten, pass, swing, use, shake off, throw off, throw away, dangle, drop, discharge, spend, overlook, knock off, miss, cast off, shed, omit

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1. expendverb

   Synonyms:
   disburse, spend, lay out

2. expendverb

   Synonyms:
   use, employ

3. expendverb

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, consume, waste, dissipate

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1. expendverb

   Synonyms:
   disburse

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1. List of paraphrases for "expend":

   spend, devote

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1. David Assael:

   They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

2. Georgia Cervin:

   Simone Biles is continuing a journey for women gymnasts that really started in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when they started to do more tumbling to accompany their dancing, and that tumbling was rivaling the men's in terms of its difficulty, simone Biles goes further than that... and Simone Biles's doing it while also having to expend Simone Biles energy on dancing and leaping and turning and smiling throughout Simone Biles routine.

3. Albert Camus:

   Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

4. Tom Perez:

   My singular focus until the clock strikes midnight in 2017 is going to be how we build the economy that works for everyone, i've never been a fan of those who have the privilege of doing these jobs expend any iota of time thinking about what they want to do next.

5. Azhar Sabri:

   Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.