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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. Shak.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.

2. To pay out or disburse money. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay .

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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