expending

verb

present participle of expend
1
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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2
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 next Starliner flight will haul cargo to the ISS, expending one of the remaining Atlas Vs. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expending
  1. spending
  2. consuming
  3. paying
  4. draining
  5. exhausting
  6. absorbing
  7. reducing
  8. depleting
Verb
  • Between outside economists and litigators, the states could end up spending $20 million.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 July 2026
  • The Anagram sunglasses style is the best way to get your hands on the maison’s finest without spending a fortune.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
Definition of spending
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  • Check their website before consuming fish caught from the rivers.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • First, mantids feed indiscriminately, consuming a wide variety of insects including beneficial insects such as bees, butterflies, and syrphid flies.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
Definition of consuming
Verb
  • Rather than paying the Cuban government agency that runs medical missions, Calabria signed individual contracts with the doctors and makes deposits in their Italian bank accounts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • The Justice Department unveiled this case against it, essentially arguing that SPLC had been defrauding its donors by paying informants within far-right groups who were infiltrating those groups.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
Definition of paying
Verb
  • But if the drain line is clogged or the drain pan is not tilted appropriately, then this could prevent the moisture from draining away.
    — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 10 July 2026
  • Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, whose agency oversees the National Park Service, told conservative podcaster Katie Miller in an interview released earlier this week that the new round of draining was planned.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of draining
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  • The two young women at the center of the chamber piece that is Fruit Gathering face more challenges than hard work in a monotonous environment, including exhausting work, economic uncertainty and social repression.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
  • This convergence is a very encouraging sign, providing the first footprint of a structural trend change and indicating that the selling pressure from the recent rug pull is finally exhausting itself.
    — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Definition of exhausting
Verb
  • The Hill Country is especially prone to flooding issues because its steep slopes, shallow soils and exposed bedrock repel heavy rain instead of absorbing it.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
  • An economy that lowers unemployment by absorbing workers into jobs is building capacity.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Definition of absorbing
Verb
  • The legislation reflects the complexity of the crisis, combining a total of 47 proposals aimed at increasing housing supply, reducing costs and expanding access to affordable homes.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • The goal is to improve inspection quality while reducing the risks associated with labor-intensive maintenance work.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
Definition of reducing
Verb
  • However, environmental groups are concerned that satellite re-entries could release ozone-depleting chemicals, a topic scientists say needs more research.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026
  • When the weather cools down or is stormy, algae blooms die off, depleting oxygen that fish and other aquatic life need to survive, Van Rhein said.
    — Zuri Primos July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
Definition of depleting

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