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Definitions for Spend

[1] to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
[2] to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding: Don't spend much time on it.
[3] to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.: We spent a few days in Baltimore.
[4] to use up, consume, or exhaust: The storm had spent its fury.
[5] to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.
[6] to spend money, energy, time, etc.
[7] Obsolete . to be consumed or exhausted.
[8] to pay out (money, wealth, etc)
[9] (tr) to concentrate (time, effort, thought, etc) upon an object, activity, etc
[10] (tr) to pass (time) in a specific way, activity, place, etc
[11] (tr) to use up completely the hurricane spent its force
[12] (tr) to give up (one's blood, life, etc) in a cause
[13] (intr) obsolete to be used up or exhausted
[14] spend a penny British informal to urinate
[15] an amount of money spent, esp regularly, or allocated to be spent

Words related to Spend

use, waste, consume, give, invest, contribute, expend, employ, settle, concentrate, allocate, drop, donate, devote, kill, go, blow, exhaust, confer, drain

Words nearby Spend

spemann, spence, spencer, spencer gulf, spencerian, spend, spendable, spender, spending money, spends, spendthrift

Origin of Spend

1125–75; Middle English spenden, continuing Old English -spendan (in āspendan, forspendan to spend entirely or utterly) < West Germanic < Latin expendere to pay out, expend; compare German spenden

Other words from Spend

an·ti·spend·ing , adjective
un·der·spend , verb, un·der·spent, un·der·spend·ing.
un·spend·ing , adjective

Word origin for Spend

Old English spendan, from Latin expendere; influenced also by Old French despendre to spend, from Latin dispendere; see expend , dispense

Synonyms for Spend

allocate, concentrate, consume, contribute, donate, drop, employ, expend, give, invest, put in, settle, use, waste, absorb, apply, bestow, blow, confer, defray, deplete, disburse, dispense, dissipate, drain, empty, exhaust, fritter, lavish, liquidate, misspend, squander, ante up, cast away, come across, come through, cough up, evote, foot the bill, hand out, lay out, outlay, pay down, pay up, run through, shell out, spring for, throw away, use up