expend
to use up or spend a resource such as money, energy, or time
Word origin: From Latin expendere, to weigh out or pay.
Expend in a sentence
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She expended enormous energy trying to meet the impossible deadline.
The startup expended most of its early capital on research that would not pay off for years.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “expend” well
Expend means to use up a resource, whether money, energy, or effort, often implying a deliberate and sometimes considerable outlay. It is more formal than spend.
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