expend

Definition

To consume, exhaust (some resource).

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness."
• "So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box."
• "To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks."

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