superspend
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From super- + spend. Doublet of superexpend.
Verb
[edit]superspend (third-person singular simple present superspends, present participle superspending, simple past and past participle superspended)
- (obsolete) To spend excessively; to overspend.
Further reading
[edit]- “superspend, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From super- + spend. Doublet of superexpend.
Verb
[edit]superspend (third-person singular simple present superspends, present participle superspendin, simple past superspendt, past participle superspendt)
- to spend excessively; to overspend
Further reading
[edit]- “superspend, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.