Die
Expend
Expend verb - To hand over or use up in payment.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The chief difficulty would be to distinguish those who [...] would therefore ultimately die, and on whom it would be wasteful to expend scarce medical resources.
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In The Dresden Files, killing a wizard is considered a very dangerous proposition since, if they know they're going to die, they can expend their life energy to create a "death curse" that can do really horrible stuff to their killer.
Source: Muggles Do It Better - Mass casualty triage rests upon providing the most benefit to the greatest number of people; if you expend all your resources saving one catastrophically injured patient, you may have just doomed ten more to die for lack of care.
Source: Triage Tyrant
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