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To pay out (money).ambitransitive
- I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
- He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
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To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.
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To squander.dated
- to spend an estate in gambling
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To exhaust, to wear out.
- The violence of the waves was spent.
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To consume, to use up (time).
- My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
- We spent the winter in the south of France.
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To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.ambitransitivedated
- The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
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To waste or wear away; to be consumed.intransitive
- Energy spends in the using of it.
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To be diffused; to spread.
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
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To break ground; to continue working.
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Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.countableuncountable
- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
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Expenditures; money or pocket money.countablein-pluraluncountable
- Total January spends by year
- The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]
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Discharged semen.countableuncountable
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Vaginal discharge.countableuncountable