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verb (v)

• use up, consume fully(verb.consumption)

  Example:
  The legislature expended its time on school questions.
  

  Synonym:
  use
  

  source: wordnet30
• pay out(verb.possession)

  Synonym:
  drop, spend
  

  source: wordnet30
• To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To be laid out, used, or consumed.(verb)

  source: webster1913