Definition of Expend

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Expend

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

To be laid out, used, or consumed.

To pay out or disburse money.

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Expend Quotations

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Bryant H. McGill

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
Max Stirner

Expend Translations

expend in German is aufwenden, ausgeben (Geld)
expend in Latin is prodigo, erogo, impendo

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