OVERSPENDS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

overspends

verb

present tense third-person singular of overspend

as in consumes

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The company said the design consumes approximately 30 percent less fuel than comparable conventional aircraft.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
Not every abnormal reading is an emergency, yet every alert consumes clinical attention.

— Ayush Jain, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of consumes

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Country music star Randy Houser spends a lot of his life on the road, but when the shows are over and the tour bus stops rolling, there's usually one thing on his mind.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Every year, Santos spends months back home in the Yukon as the official sign painter of Dawson City, preserving its history on behalf of the Canadian government.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of spends

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That pretty much exhausts the points of agreement between the pro- and anti-Proposition 40 camps.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Instead of occupying both sides with large cooling vents, air enters toward the front of the station and exhausts through the rear.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of exhausts

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As for battery life, the MacBook Air wins most of the face-offs here, but loses to some key rivals, namely the HP Googlebook 14, by a fair margin.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
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— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of loses

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All are standing aside while Stephen Miller squanders whatever standing the Republican Party had left with veterans, frontline civilians and military families.

— Shawn VanDiver, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
Over and over, Levinson squanders opportunities for humanization or interiority in favor of provocation.

— Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 28 May 2026

Definition of squanders

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