Definition of spend

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Spend (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it..

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Idler :: Idler (n.) One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.
Profuse :: Profuse (v. t.) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer..
Loiter :: Loiter (v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Scattergood :: Scattergood (n.) One who wastes; a spendthrift.
Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..
Misspend :: Misspend (v. t.) To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money..
Spendthrift :: Spendthrift (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..
Impend :: Impend (v. i.) To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.
Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices..
Punka :: Punka (n.) A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Clue :: Clue (n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
Corona :: Corona (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis..
Rod :: Rod (n.) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar..
Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke..
Lance :: Lance (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
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