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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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