spends

noun

Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.

(in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.

Discharged semen.

Vaginal discharge.

verb

(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).

To consume, to use up (time).

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

To exhaust, to wear out.

(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

(mining) To break ground; to continue working.

To be diffused; to spread.

(dated) To squander.

(dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

Roots

pendopend- · Latin · hang, weigh

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Where does spends come from?

The word spends breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root pend-, from Latin pendo (“hang, weigh”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.