spend

Meanings

Verb

• To pay out (money).
• To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
• To squander.
• To exhaust, to wear out.
• To consume, to use up (time).
• To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
• To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
• To be diffused; to spread.
• To break ground; to continue working.

Noun

• Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
• Expenditures; money or pocket money.
• Discharged semen.
• Vaginal discharge.

Origin

• From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan, forspendan), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn, borrowed from Latin expendere ("to weigh out"). expend. Cognate with Old High German spentōn ("to consume, use, spend") (whence German spenden ("to donate, provide")), Middle Dutch spenden, Old Icelandic spenna ("to spend").