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spend
What does spend mean?
spend (verb): use up a period of time in a specific way.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use spend in a sentence?
- How are you spending your summer vacation? (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce spend?
/spɛnd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does spend come from?
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “spend” mean?
make into a whole or make part of a whole
Not quite: that's what incorporate means.
to contain comfortably; to have space for
Not quite: that's what accommodate means.
use up a period of time in a specific way
Right! That's what “spend” means.
to come or go back (to a place or person)
Not quite: that's what return means.
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