Bespend
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To expend; bestow; employ. transitive
"Do those who bring into the world two or three brats with ugly noses to take their place,— do these help mankind more than the missionaries who oversee all men according to their power, what they do, how they bespend their lives, what, contrary to their duty, they neglect?”"
Example
More examples"Do those who bring into the world two or three brats with ugly noses to take their place,— do these help mankind more than the missionaries who oversee all men according to their power, what they do, how they bespend their lives, what, contrary to their duty, they neglect?”"
Etymology
From be- (“on, over, about”) + spend.
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