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spendingverbpresent participle of spend to hand over or use up in paymentI always end up spending too much money at the mall disbursing, dropping, expending, forking (over, out, or up), giving, laying out, outlaying, paying, shelling out lavishing, rainingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting caching, hoarding, laying up, savingacquiring, earning, gaining, garnering, making, procuring, realizing, securing, winning to make complete use ofthe town has already spent its budget for snow removal, and it's only January absorbing, burning, consuming, depleting, devouring, draining, drawing down, exhausting, expending, playing out, using up abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, reducingeating, usingbankrupting, cleaning (out), impoverishingcrippling, debilitating, disabling, enfeebling, sapping, undermining, weakeningdrying up, emptyingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), guzzling, lavishing, misspending, running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting running out of renewing, replacing augmenting, enlarging, increasingbolstering, enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningrebuilding, repairing, restoring, revivingconserving, preserving, saving to use up carelesslyspent all his energy on impractical schemes blowing, dissipating, fiddling away, frittering (away), lavishing, losing, misspending, running through, squandering, throwing away, trifling (away), wasting splurgingconsuming, depleting, exhausting, impoverishing, overspending, shootingindulging, overindulgingdisbursing, expending, laying out playing ducks and drakes with(or making ducks and drakes of) conserving economizing, scrimping, skimpingpreserving, protecting, savinghoarding, laying up |