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adjective

as in consumed

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verb

past tense of expend
1
as in spent
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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2
as in exhausted
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 expended
Adjective
Power said members of the Detective Division responded to the scene and found several bullet holes on the outside of the building as well as several expended shell casings in the parking lot. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2026 The expended casing was submitted to a national ballistic imaging database, called NIBIN, run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
Verb
Antiquing is usually a more expensive hobby, in part because of the time and effort that dealers have expended curating their items for sale. — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 July 2026 Syrskyi also came under intense criticism for his association with the 425th Separate Assault Regiment, known as Skelia, which for many Ukrainians became emblematic of the tactics that expended soldiers’ lives for marginal territorial gains. — ABC News, 23 July 2026 The first-stage booster flew for a record-tieng 20th time, but was expended getting the payload to medium-Earth orbit. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2026 For example, does the compensation include a value for the time needed to go through the claim process rather than attending to other tasks or the extra diligence expended to minimize the losses? — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 6 July 2026 The medical industry has spent enormous effort making more advanced tests but expended little effort learning how to use tests correctly. — Daniel Morgan, STAT, 6 July 2026 Here, the material can be charged earlier by light or another energy source, stored in the dark, and then used later to power a chemical reaction after the original energy input has been expended. — New Atlas, 3 July 2026 Then, the Clippers willingly expended their draft capital in hopes to open a championship window. — Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 Wildfires have been a frequent and traumatic threat to our community, and all resources to determine the identity of the person who started the fire have been expended. — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expended
  1. consumed
  2. spent
  3. exhausted
  4. depleted
  5. paid
  6. drained
  7. reduced
  8. absorbed
Adjective
  • In Stoddart’s estimation, the best way to freeze these semi-consumed cakes is in slices.
    — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 2 Dec. 2025
Definition of consumed
Verb
  • Volkwine, lead foreman for Pivot Custom Skate Parks, a division of American Ramp Company, and his team have spent much of the last year helping to bring Idaho’s newest and biggest skate park to life.
    — Noah Daly July 31, Idaho Statesman, 31 July 2026
  • Baresi is regarded as an AC Milan icon, having spent his entire 20-year career with the club, winning six Serie A titles and three top European trophies, and captaining the team for 15 seasons before retiring in 1997.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
Definition of spent
Verb
  • Players were exhausted after nearly two years of shifting restrictions and the stress of constantly facing the possibility of solitary confinement in a foreign city.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 July 2026
  • While the use of subpoena power against journalists has always been highly controversial, officials in past administrations sometimes justified it by arguing it was used as a last resort, after other investigative avenues were exhausted.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
Definition of exhausted
Adjective
  • Ritchson started testosterone replacement therapy after filming season 1 of Reacher left him with depleted hormones, a shoulder injury and severe fatigue from rapid muscle gain.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026
  • Those adaptations can coexist with chronic stress, depleted sleep and choices that were never freely available.
    — Kristin Vance Richards, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of depleted
Verb
  • Being paid a paltry second-line rate for the next six years is a bargain.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Former Bishop Feehan star Brody Bumila didn’t go in the first round of the MLB draft earlier this month, but the 6-foot-9 lefty with an 100 mph fastball still got paid like one of the top selections.
    — Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 21 July 2026
Definition of paid
Verb
  • Still, these legal battles and the year of strikes drained the UMWA financially.
    — Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • The soil is just as dense, heavy, and poorly drained as ever.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 July 2026
Definition of drained
Adjective
  • Snack manufacturers and alcohol producers are facing the prospect of reduced appetites.
    — Elyse Moody, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026
  • While some project significant costs, others foresee billions in Medicare savings from reduced hospitalizations.
    — Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of reduced
Verb
  • Flores absorbed the method in Tambo Mayo, a village along the Ucayali River in northeastern Peru where she was born in 1950.
    — Gabriella Angeleti, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Quickly stir until most of the flour is absorbed, then cook, stirring vigorously and breaking up pockets of dry flour as needed, until a thin film forms on bottom and sides of pan and dough comes together into a single mass, 2–3 minutes.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of absorbed

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