Definition of Spend

Spend

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