What is another word for expends?

Pronunciation: [ɛkspˈɛndz] (IPA)

Expends is a verb that means to spend, outlay, or consume resources. There are several synonyms for expends that can be used interchangeably in various contexts. Some alternatives include exhaust, use up, deplete, consume, utilize, squander, expend, reduce, and drain. Exhaust is often used when referring to the depletion of resources through hard work or overuse. Use up and deplete are used when referring to the exhaustion of the available resources. Consume is used when referring to the use of resources for a specific purpose. Utilize is used when pointing out the use of resources effectively. Squander and drain are mostly used when there is a careless or reckless use of resources.

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Usage examples for Expends

Fractures in general are liable to be produced by external force suddenly and violently applied, either directly to the part or at a distance, the force being transmitted through the stronger bones until it expends itself by breaking a weaker one remote from the seat of the injury.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
She looked charming this morning in a loose wrap from Paris, which had cost rather more than an ordinary, fairly well-to-do young lady, residing, say, at Hampstead, expends upon her entire toilette in twelve months.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
"He hopes to weary us out, and then to run us on board; but we will be even with him: or perhaps he is wisely waiting to discover whether we are friends or foes before he expends any more powder and shot.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston

Famous quotes with Expends

  • Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
    Eric Hoffer
  • The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Great joys, why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which reaches a high degree of negative intensity. At such moments, instead of a gain, one keenly feels loss. sadness accompanies all those events in which life expends itself. its intensity is equal to its loss. Thus death causes the greatest sadness.
    Emil Cioran
  • There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God.
    Henry Clay Trumbull
  • When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
    Anton Chekhov

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