superspend

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ spend. Doublet of superexpend.

Verb

superspend (third-person singular simple present superspends, present participle superspending, simple past and past participle superspended)

1. (obsolete) To spend excessively; to overspend.

Further reading

• “superspend, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Scots

Etymology

From super- +‎ spend. Doublet of superexpend.

Verb

superspend (third-person singular simple present superspends, present participle superspendin, simple past superspendt, past participle superspendt)

1. to spend excessively; to overspend

Further reading

• “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.