spend

1. (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).Examples: "He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper."; "Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season."; "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result."ambitransitive

2. (dated) To squander.Examples: "to spend an estate in gambling"dated

3. (dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.Examples: "The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen."ambitransitivedated

4. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.Examples: "Energy spends in the using of it."; "The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air."intransitive

5. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.