EX PEND Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

expend

verb

ik-ˈspend

as in to spend

to hand over or use up in payment redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house

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as in to consume

to make complete use of settlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter

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Recent Examples of expend Weapons expended or deployed in one region are often drawn from the same inventories intended for another. —

James Laporta, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026 Does that mean the Santa Ana Police Department could potentially bill the federal government for more than half a million dollars for resources expended responding to anti-ICE demonstrations in June 2025? —

Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026 Russia is expending ammunition at a high rate, reportedly firing between 10,000 and 15,000 artillery rounds per day. —

Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2026 Properly insulated nerve cells are a lot more energy efficient, expending less energy to get signals across. —

Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for expend

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This is not fusion, but testament to the world as one big town, as perhaps only a third-culture kid — with Filipino and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and a girlhood spent in the Deep South — would know.

— Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Barker worked at Starbucks and spent every free moment writing and shooting.

— Alex Barasch, New Yorker, 11 May 2026