noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   expenditure

   "expendings of time and energy"

2. 2
   the act of spending money for goods or services wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of expend form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

ablationabsorptionassimilationattritiondepletiondigestion

Example

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"He couldn’t finish the race since he had been expending too much energy by trying to stay with the leaders."

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