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Synset

use up, consume fully
<verb.consumption>   freq. cnt.: 15 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 7

expend more info
use more info

sample sentences

"The legislature expended its time on school questions"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
They %s the money

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
They %s the money
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
use
also see
use up
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
expenditure
semantic pointers
hyponym
abuse, pervert, misuse abuse spare take, occupy, use up waste, blow, squander
entailment
use up, exhaust, eat up, run through, wipe out, consume, eat, deplete