spend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   pay out

   spend money

2. 2
   verb

   spend completely

   I spend my pocket money in two days

3. 3
   verb

   pass time in a specific way

   how are you spending your summer vacation?

4. 4
   verb

   To pay out (money).

   I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.

5. 5
   verb

   To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

   I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.

6. 6
   verb

   To squander.

   to spend an estate in gambling

7. 7
   verb

   To exhaust, to wear out.

   The violence of the waves was spent.

8. 8
   verb

   To consume, to use up (time).

   My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.

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”).