Definition of spend

• v. t. - To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
• v. t. - To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
• v. t. - To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
• v. t. - To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
• v. t. - To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
• v. i. - To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
• v. i. - To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
• v. i. - To be diffused; to spread.
• v. i. - To break ground; to continue working.