use up, consume fully
"The legislature expended its time on school questions"
pay out
"spend money"
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expend
Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round
Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make
The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly
Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone
Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. [ Lewis Morris ]
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. [ Colton ]
Most persons are disposed to expend more than they can afford, and to indulge more than they can endure. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and cease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately. [ Ruskin ]
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