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Etymology

From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).

derived from expendere
inherited from *spendōn✻ — “to spend”
inherited from spendan
inherited from spenden

Definitions

1
To pay out (money).
- I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
- He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
2
To bestow
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.
3
To squander.
- to spend an estate in gambling
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1. 4
  To exhaust, to wear out.
  - The violence of the waves was spent.
  - their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
2. 5
  To consume, to use up (time).
  - My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
  - We spent the winter in the south of France.
3. 6
  To have an orgasm
  To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
  - The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
4. 7
  To waste or wear away
  To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
  - Energy spends in the using of it.
  - The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
5. 8
  To be diffused
  To be diffused; to spread.
  - The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
6. To break ground
  To break ground; to continue working.
7. 10
  Amount of money spent (during a period)
  Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
  - I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
8. 11
  Expenditures
  Expenditures; money or pocket money.
  - Total January spends by year
  - The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]
9. Discharged semen.
10. Vaginal discharge.

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Derived

bespend, don't spend it all at once, don't spend it all in one place, forespend, forspend, heartspent, misspend, nonspending, outspend, overspend, respend, spaving, spendability, spendable, spendaholic, spend-all, spend a penny, spendathon, spendful, spend good money after bad, spendicitis, spending money, spendless, spend money like water, spendocracy, spendocrat, spendthrift, spend time, spendworthy, spendy, spent force, superspend, time spent laughing is time spent with the gods, tokens get spent, underspend, unspend

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at spend. 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.

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

7 hops · closes at spend

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