Die and Expend

Die

Die verb - To stop living.

Expend and die are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Expend" instead a verb "Die".

Nearby Word: died

Expend

Expend verb - To hand over or use up in payment.

Die and expend are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Die" instead a verb "Expend".

Common collocations

power die power expend power
men die men expend men
point die point expend point
time die time expend time
Other words: blood, hundreds, lives.

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / Ultimate Defence of the Realm 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.
  • Muggles Do It Better 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.
  • 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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