spend

spend
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. t. disburse, pay out, ex-pend; consume, exhaust; pass, employ. See ejection, waste.
II
(Roget's IV) v.
1. [To expend]
Syn. consume, deplete, waste, dispense, contribute, donate, give, liquidate, exhaust, squander, disburse, allocate, pay, discharge, lay out, pay up, settle, defray, drain one's resources, empty one's purse, bestow, use up, put in, confer, misspend, absorb, prodigalize, throw away, cast away, foot the bill*, ante up*, open the purse*, fork out*, pony up*, blow*.
Ant. save*, keep, conserve.
2. [To pass time]
Syn. while away, let pass, idle, fritter away, misuse, occupy oneself, employ, fill, put in, squander, kill, fool away, drift, laze; see also consume 2 , use 1 , waste 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.
exhaust, disburse, squander, pay out, *blow, use up, expend, fritter, consume, dispense, outlay, splurge, *fork over, deplete.
ANT.: save, conserve, hoard
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To use all of: consume, drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, use up. Informal: polish off. See INCREASE. 2. To be depleted: consume, go. Idiom: go down the drain. See INCREASE. 3. To distribute (money) as payment: disburse, expend, give, lay out, outlay, pay (out). Informal: fork out (or over or up), shell out. See SAVE. 4. To use time in a particular way: pass, put in. See TIME.

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