expend

Verb

Verb Forms: expended, expending, expends

To spend or use up resources.
use up, consume fully
- "The legislature expended its time on school questions"
pay out
To consume, exhaust (some resource).

Examples

Don’t expend all your high-value tiles too early in the game.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“I weigh; I pay out”). Doublet of spend.

Synonyms

drop, spend, use

Scrabble Score: 16

expend: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
expend: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
expend: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

expend: valid Words With Friends Word