<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object), spent, spend·ing.<ul><li>to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.</li><li>Antonyms: keep, earn</li><li>to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding: Don't spend much time on it.</li><li>Synonyms: devote, apply, use</li><li>to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.: We spent a few days in Baltimore.</li><li>to use up, consume, or exhaust: The storm had spent its fury.</li><li>to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object), spent, spend·ing.<ul><li>to spend money, energy, time, etc.</li><li>Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted.</li></ul></li></ul>