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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Expend \Ex*pend"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Expended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Expending}.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, and cf. {Spend}.] 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.
If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
expended \expended\ adjective nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.
Syn: gone, spent. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
expended
adjective: having all been spent; "the money is all gone" [syn: {gone}, {spent}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "expended": ablated, acquitted, by the board, consumed, depleted, discharged, dissipated, eroded, forfeit, forfeited, gone, hired, irretrievable, liquidated, long-lost, lost, lost to, out the window, paid, paid in full, postpaid, prepaid, receipted, remitted, salaried, settled, shrunken, spent, squandered, used, used up, waged, wasted, worn away
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