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# expend

«expend» in Mova's school dictionary: **To use or spend energy, time, effort or money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (expend, expends, expended, expending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To use or spend energy, time, effort or money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#m1)

2) (formal) To use up completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A stiff exam and science word: energy expended when running, money expended on a project. Tells the reader something was used up. Phrases: «expend energy», «expend effort», «expend time».

### examples

- Running expends a lot of energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#x1)
- The school expended 500 dollars on new books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#x2)
- Don't expend all your effort at the start of the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#x3)
- Birds expend energy flying south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#x4)
- Much time was expended on the project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#x5)
- The rocket expended all its fuel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#x6)
- He frisked about the meadow, now here, now there, making sprightly leaps, with as little effort as a bird expends in hopping from twig to twig. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/#x7)

### note

Formal; everyday: «spend», «use». Related nouns: «expenditure» (money spent), «expense» (cost). Adjective «expendable» (not needed, can be lost). In maths: money expended is SUBTRACTED from the budget (budget 800, expended 500, left 300).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.