expend
/ɪkˈspɛnd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.90 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness."
- "So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box."
- "Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better."
- "To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
expends (present, singular)
expending (participle, present)
expended (participle, past)
expended (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
expended (first person, past)
expendest (archaic, present)
expended (past, second person)
expendedst (archaic, past)
expendeth (archaic, present)
expended (past, singular)