English Dictionary

spend

/spɛnd/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money). / To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. / (dated) To squander. / To exhaust, to wear out. / To consume, to use up (time).

I spend my weekends hiking in the mountains.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money).

He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.

意味（2）

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.

意味（3）

(dated) To squander.

to spend an estate in gambling

意味（4）

To exhaust, to wear out.

The violence of the waves was spent.

意味（5）

To consume, to use up (time).

My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.

意味（6）

(dated, transitive, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

Energy spends in the using of it.

意味（8）

To be diffused; to spread.

The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.

意味（9）

(mining) To break ground; to continue working.