expend

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vt. 花费, 消耗, 用光

发音

US /ɪkˈspɛnd/

词形变化

expended expendeth expending expends 三单 expends expent expending 现在分词 expended 过去式 expended 过去分词 expendest expendedst 过去式 expendeth 三单 expended 复数

教材释义与例句

动词

花费；消耗；用光；耗尽

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To consume, exhaust (some resource).

    及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

use eat drop spend consume exhaust deplete eat up run through use up

上位词 3

pay drop spend

下位词 10

put place use eat save pass spend blow waste burn

词源

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.

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