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. Donald Trump:

   The United States is very concerned about the conflict's toll on innocent civilians and is working to bring the conflict in Yemen to an end. But we can not end The United States through ill-conceived and time-consuming resolutions that fail to address The United States root causes, rather than expend time and resources on such resolutions, I encourage the Congress to direct its efforts toward supporting our work to achieve peace through a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Yemen.

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.