To employ, spend, bestow (time, pains, etc.).

To spend, in other senses; to employ, expend, make use of, use.

To employ, expend, spend (one's words, wit, money, time, pains, study). Obsolete. Cf. bestow, v. 5b.

transitive. To pay away, expend, spend. other things.

To expend or employ (labour, material, thought, etc.) in some specified way. Const. on or upon.

transferred and figurative. To lay out, spend (blood, care, labour, time, etc.); to employ for a given purpose.

transitive. To direct (something immaterial or abstract) towards a particular person or thing; to apply, bestow. Obsolete.

To put forth (effort); lay out, expend (money).

transitive. To make use of; to use, apply, deploy.

transitive. To expend, spend.

To spend (time, talents): both in the sense of expending profitably and of wasting. Obsolete.

To spend (one's energies), devote (one's strength) to. rare.