Expend vs Extend - What's the difference?
expend | extend |
(label) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
* , King Henry VI Part 2 , act 3, scene 1:
to spend, disburse
To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
In transitive terms the difference between expend and extend
is that expend is to consume, exhaust some resource while extend is to straighten (a limb).expend
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Verb
(en verb)- If my death might make this island happy
- I would expend it with all willingness.
extend
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Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors
