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expend 【EXPEND】He had expended much time and energy on that experiment.他已经花费许多时间、金钱在那实验上。【重点词汇】expend v. 花费

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[ɪk'spend] 
expenduse up, consume fully
The verb expend means to use. If you expend all your energy raking the leaves, you may be too tired to play hockey afterwards. Better pace yourself — you'll never get all of the leaves on the ground, after all.
The verb expend means to spend or pay out. You can expend money, but you can also expend things like good will and time. As a voter, you can vote for or against the city's plan to expend money on a new library building, but the city may be expending voter willingness to support the plan if the building goes over the budget. There is no point in building a library if they can't afford to buy books!
All forms of 'expend' will appear on average once every 112 pages.expendexpendableexpenderexpendingexpenditureexpensiveunexpendableunexpendedexpensivelyexpensivenessinexpensiveinexpensivelyinexpensiveness

Front	expend
Pron	[ɪk'spend]
Back	【EXPEND】 He had expended much time and energy on that experiment. 他已经花费许多时间、金钱在那实验上。【重点词汇】 expend v. 花费
Vocab	expenduse up, consume fully The verb expend means to use. If you expend all your energy raking the leaves, you may be too tired to play hockey afterwards. Better pace yourself — you'll never get all of the leaves on the ground, after all. The verb expend means to spend or pay out. You can expend money, but you can also expend things like good will and time. As a voter, you can vote for or against the city's plan to expend money on a new library building, but the city may be expending voter willingness to support the plan if the building goes over the budget. There is no point in building a library if they can't afford to buy books! All forms of 'expend' will appear on average once every 112 pages. expend expendable expender expending expenditure expensive unexpendable unexpended expensively expensiveness inexpensive inexpensively inexpensiveness

Expend Energy Verb Means Plan Library Building ɪk'spend