Pronunciations (3)
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/ɪkˈspɛnd/
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/ɛkˈspɛnd/
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ɪkˈspɛnd
Verb
To consume, exhaust (some resource).
Usage- Transitive
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If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness.
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So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.
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To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.
Verb
pay out
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spend money
use up (resources or materials)
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this car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
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They run through 20 bottles of wine a week