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. Cate Campbell:

   Just needed to get through to the next round and that's exactly what I did. Didn't want to expend any more energy than you have to, i knew having Sarah next to me, if she was pushing me then I'd get through to the semi-finals no worries. She's a good pacing buddy.

2. Tessa White:

   It will require effort... if you want to forge relationships when you are new, they won't come to you, you have to go to them, which means you have to expend extra effort in whatever feels most natural to you.

3. Sir Denison Miller:

   This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.

4. 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.

5. Joseph Margulies:

   I just think he is not willing to expend political capital to do it, it's not nearly as important to him as the Iran deal.