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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expended}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Expending}.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay
     out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See
     {Poise}, and cf. {Spend}.]
     To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use;
     to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations;


     to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to
     expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding
     cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           If my death might make this island happy . . .
           I would expend it with all willingness.  --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  expended \expended\ adj.
     nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or
     exchange.
  
     Syn: gone, spent.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  expended
       adj : having all been spent; "the money is all gone" [syn: {gone},
              {spent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "expended":
     ablated, acquitted, by the board, consumed, depleted, discharged,
     dissipated, eroded, forfeit, forfeited, gone, hired, irretrievable,
     liquidated, long-lost, lost, lost to, out the window, paid,
     paid in full, postpaid, prepaid, receipted, remitted, salaried,
     settled, shrunken, spent, squandered, used, used up, waged, wasted,
     worn away
  
  

















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