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expendingverbpresent participle of expend to hand over or use up in paymentredecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house disbursing, dropping, forking (over, out, or up), giving, laying out, outlaying, paying, shelling out, spending 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 ofsettlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter absorbing, burning, consuming, depleting, devouring, draining, drawing down, exhausting, playing out, spending, 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 |