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expend

verb
/ɪkˈspɛnd/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.

  1. borrowed from expendō

Definitions

  1. To consume, exhaust (some resource).

    • If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness.
    • Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at expend. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at expend. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at expend

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA