different between ingulf vs spend

English

Verb

ingulf (third-person singular simple present ingulfs, present participle ingulfing, simple past and past participle ingulfed)

1. Archaic form of engulf.

English

Etymology

From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds ?spendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spend?n (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spent?n (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money).
2. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

   • I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.

3. (dated) To squander.

4. To exhaust, to wear out.

   • their bodies spent with long labour and thirst

5. To consume, to use up (time).
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26:

     Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.
6. (dated, transitive, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

7. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
8. To be diffused; to spread.
9. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spend (countable and uncountable, plural spends)

1. Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.

   I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.

2. (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
3. Discharged semen.
4. Vaginal discharge.

Translations

Anagrams

• pends