| 单词 | expend |
| 释义 | expend (once / 113 pages) v The verb expend means to use. If you expend all your energy raking the leaves, you may be too tired to play hockey afterwards. Better pace yourself — you'll never get all of the leaves on the ground, after all. The verb expend means to spend or pay out. You can expend money, but you can also expend things like good will and time. As a voter, you can vote for or against the city's plan to expend money on a new library building, but the city may be expending voter willingness to support the plan if the building goes over the budget. There is no point in building a library if they can't afford to buy books! WORD FAMILYexpend: expendable, expended, expender, expending, expenditure, expends, expensive+/expendable: unexpendable/expended: unexpended/expenditure: expenditures/expensive: expensively, expensiveness, inexpensive/inexpensive: inexpensively, inexpensiveness USAGE EXAMPLESThey were warm-blooded, large animals who already required a lot of food and expended a lot of energy. Science Magazine(Jan 02, 2017) Abe expended significant political capital to move the accord through the Japanese parliament over objections from protectionist domestic rice and automobile industries. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) Should it find parity too costly, Moscow would likely compensate by expending another kind of currency: its willingness to accept nuclear risk. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1v use up, consume fully The legislature expended its time on school questions Syn|Hypo use abuse, misuse, pervert change the inherent purpose or function of something abuseuse wrongly or improperly or excessively spareuse frugally or carefully occupy, take, use uprequire (time or space) blow, squander, wastespend thoughtlessly; throw away fractureviolate or abuse take in vainuse a name, such as God, without proper respect bespend or use time burnspend (significant amounts of money) 2v pay out Syn|Hypo|Hyper drop, spend consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out use up (resources or materials) consume, squander, ware, wastespend extravagantly affordbe able to spare or give up blowspend lavishly or wastefully on trifle away, wanton, wanton awayspend wastefully underspendspend at less than the normal rate misspendspend (money or other resources) unwisely nickel-and-dime, penny-pinchspend money frugally; spend as little as possible commit, invest, place, putmake an investment economise, economize, savespend sparingly, avoid the waste of lay outspend or invest piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton awaywaste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently misspendspend time badly or unwisely run outexhaust the supply of draindeplete of resources indulge, luxuriateenjoy to excess dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shootspend frivolously and unwisely luxuriate, wantonbecome extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously burn, burn off, burn upuse up (energy) fundinvest money in government securities lavish, showerexpend profusely; also used with abstract nouns overspendspend at a high rate spendspend completely tighten one's beltlive frugally and use less resources fling, splurgeindulge oneself roll overre-invest (a previous investment) into a similar fund or security shelterinvest (money) so that it is not taxable tie upinvest so as to make unavailable for other purposes job, speculateinvest at a risk exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tiredeplete buy intobuy stocks or shares of a company pay give money, usually in exchange for goods or services |
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