spend

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for spend

spend 🔊 /spɛˈnd/

spend : වියදම් කරනවා

spend : ගෙවනවා

spend : විසඳනවා

spend definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
  2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
  3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
  4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
  5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
  2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
  3. To be diffused; to spread.
  4. To break ground; to continue working.