EXPENDING Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

expending

verb

present participle of expend

as in spending

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 consuming

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 expending The Cubs have already moved Colin Rea, Ben Brown and Javier Assad into their rotation for extended stretches, expending almost all of their depth. —

Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 17 June 2026 Deadhead spent flowers to keep plants from expending energy on seed development. —

Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026 Smith receives limited federal grants, but battling the Education Department requires expending time, attention and money to a lawsuit rather than devoting those resources to student education. —

Marie-Amelie George, The Conversation, 28 May 2026 Whether the lawsuit, filed for the city by the America First Policy Institute, is worth expending any of El Cajon’s time and resources on is far from clear. —

Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026 Because what the Knicks are seeing right now is a player expending so much on one end that there may not be enough left on the other — and a coaching staff still searching for ways to pull him out of it before the games start to matter more. —

Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026 With one missile – particularly one outfitted with cluster munitions – Iran can send millions of Israelis into bomb shelters and cause Israel and the US to continue expending a finite supply of costly missile interceptors. —

Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026 Exercise positively impacts sleep by expending energy and making your more tired. —

Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 2026 Macron said France is expending diplomatic capital to ensure a return to calm and to allow for the Lebanese armed forces to assert themselves as Israel pounds Hezbollah positions. —

Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026

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The retailer employs a team of roughly 40 to 50 personal shoppers in Paris, who work closely with top-spending clients and serve as ambassadors for the store’s designer offering.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 17 June 2026
The department is working to approve requests for waivers that give states more flexibility for spending federal money.

— Alia Wong, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026