EXPENDING Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

expending

verb

present participle of expend

as in spending

to hand over or use up in payment redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house

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as in consuming

to make complete use of settlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter

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Recent Examples of expending Whether the lawsuit, filed for the city by the America First Policy Institute, is worth expending any of El Cajon’s time and resources on is far from clear. —

Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026 Because what the Knicks are seeing right now is a player expending so much on one end that there may not be enough left on the other — and a coaching staff still searching for ways to pull him out of it before the games start to matter more. —

Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026 With one missile – particularly one outfitted with cluster munitions – Iran can send millions of Israelis into bomb shelters and cause Israel and the US to continue expending a finite supply of costly missile interceptors. —

Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026 Exercise positively impacts sleep by expending energy and making your more tired. —

Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Mar. 2026 Macron said France is expending diplomatic capital to ensure a return to calm and to allow for the Lebanese armed forces to assert themselves as Israel pounds Hezbollah positions. —

Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026 Still, Rayburn said expending too many munitions in the conflict with Iran could prove problematic for America’s future preparedness. —

Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 4 Mar. 2026 Thankfully, after expending serious overtime up front, the design crew lightened its hand over the rest of the truck, which remains a stout, sturdy pickup without the over-accentuation that characterizes the new US-market Tundra and Tacoma. —

New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2026 And if this energy is used or leaks away, cells can replenish it by expending more of their chemical energy. —

Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026

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His lips were sunburned after spending three days leading a group down the Rio Grande.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Now the company seeks to expand on last year’s win by spending vast sums — putting up more than $70 million so far — on a California ballot measure campaign to cap attorney fees in car crash cases.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026