spend

spend is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2.

[2] To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert.

[3] To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

[4] To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.

[5] To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.