verb as in give, pay out
Strongest matches
allocate, concentrate, consume, contribute, donate, drop, employ, expend, give, invest, put in, settle, use, waste
Strong matches
absorb, apply, bestow, blow, confer, defray, deplete, disburse, dispense, dissipate, drain, empty, exhaust, fritter, lavish, liquidate, misspend, squander
Weak matches
ante up, cast away, come across, come through, cough up, evote, foot the bill, hand out, lay out, outlay, pay down, pay up, run through, shell out, spring for, throw away, use up
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Example Sentences
Luckily for him, he found Sairam Palicherla, a scientist who has spent more than two decades studying farming.
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Last week, she spent hours on the phone with colleagues to check on the status of their intensive care units.
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I’ve written before about how billionaire philanthropists can spend their money to fight climate change.
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I was tired of spending my evenings trying to understand the next day.
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American spent an estimated $9 billion on the holiday in 2018, according to Vox.
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Speech, in this case, is our ability to spend money on a goofy entertainment.
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Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.
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Prosecutors wanted him to spend at least 10 years behind bars.
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He is expected to spend the next few days closeted with lawyers and advisers at his home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.
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Instead, I spend much of my time criticizing my fellow atheists.
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It's a certainty that they will be captured if they spend that money at any trading-post within our jurisdiction.
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He told her he would probably spend the next day in bed for a thorough rest, and she agreed that that would be a very good idea.
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This is a big country, but you can count on the fingers of one hand the places where a man can spend money.
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Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:—that is ammunition.
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In order not to weary your Majesty, I shall not dwell longer upon this, or spend time setting forth our losses.
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Related Words
Words related to spend are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word spend. Browse related words to learn more about word associations.
verbas in use up
verbas in use up
- absorb
- apply
- avail oneself of
- deplete
- devour
- dissipate
- dominate
- drain
- drivel
- eat up
- employ
- engross
- exhaust
- expend
- finish
- finish up
- fritter away
- frivol away
- go
- go through
- have recourse to
- lavish
- lessen
- monopolize
- obsess
- preoccupy
- profit by
- put away
- put to use
- run out of
- run through
- spend
- squander
- throw away
- trifle
- utilize
- vanish
- wash up
- waste
- wear out
verbas in consume, exhaust supply
verbas in consume, exhaust supply
verbas in consume, exhaust supply
verbas in consume, exhaust supply
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.