{"def":{"short":"to pour out as a libation, i.e., (figuratively) to devote (one's life or blood, as a sacrifice) (\"spend\")","long":["to pour out as a drink offering, make a libation","in the New Testament to be offered as a libation","figuratively used of one whose blood is poured out in a violent death for the cause of God"]},"deriv":"apparently a primary verb","pronun":{"ipa":"ˈspɛn.ðo","ipa_mod":"ˈspe̞n̪.ðow","sbl":"spendō","dic":"SPEN-thoh","dic_mod":"SPANE-thoh"}}