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Despend

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dispendverb(obsolete) To spend or expend.
spendverb(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
squanderverb(transitive) To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
pass awayverb(euphemistic, idiomatic) To die.
expendverb(transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).
unspendverb(transitive, rare) To recover (money that has been spent); to undo the spending of.
wastenounExcess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
dissipateverb(intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
throw awayverb(transitive) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
dissavenounTo spend more than one earns.
defrayverbTo pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
dispurseverbObsolete form of disburse. [(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.]
forwasteverb(transitive, obsolete) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
fritter awayverb(transitive) To squander or waste.
make away withverbTo steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.
spareExtra.
deburseverbObsolete form of disburse. [(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.]
desparpleverb(transitive, obsolete) To scatter, to disparkle.
prodigateverb(archaic, transitive) To squander.
dropnoun(also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.

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