spend

Plural: spends

Verb

Verb Forms: spent, spending, spends

To use money or time; to exhaust.
pass time in a specific way
- "how are you spending your summer vacation?"
pay out
- "spend money"
spend completely
- "I spend my pocket money in two days"
To pay out (money).
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
To consume, to use up (time).
To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
To be diffused; to spread.
To break ground; to continue working.

Noun

Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
Expenditures; money or pocket money.
Discharged semen.
Vaginal discharge.

Examples

Energy spends in the using of it.
He had to spend an extra turn to set up his next big Scrabble word.
He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
The violence of the waves was spent.
to spend an estate in gambling
We spent the winter in the south of France.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).

Synonyms

drop, expend, pass

Scrabble Score: 8

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

Words With Friends Score: 10

spend: valid Words With Friends Word