| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To use all of: consume, drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up. Informal : polish off. See INCREASE. 2. To distribute (money) as payment: disburse, give, lay out, outlay, pay (out), spend. Informal : fork out or (over) or (up), shell out. See SAVE.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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