expend
verb (used with object)
to use up.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
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For the new Man of Faith will be expending his passion, his desire, and his enthusiasm in the propagation of some reasonable idea.
From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley