Spend /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending

1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

   Spend thou that in the town.

   Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?

2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

   I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment.

3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.

   We spend our years as a tale that is told.

5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

   Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.

1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

   He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning.

2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

   The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.

3. To be diffused; to spread.

   The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.

4. To break ground; to continue working. (Mining)