Expend vs Dawdle - What's the difference?
expend | dawdle |
(label) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
* , King Henry VI Part 2 , act 3, scene 1:
to spend, disburse
To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
* {{quote-news
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* Johnson
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
In transitive terms the difference between expend and dawdle
is that expend is to consume, exhaust some resource while dawdle is to spend (time) without haste or purpose.As a noun dawdle is
a dawdler.expend
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Verb
(en verb)- If my death might make this island happy
- I would expend it with all willingness.
dawdle
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- Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
- We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.