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Expend
Open directlyWebster'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 .