'Spent' definitions:
Definition of 'spent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Depleted of energy, force, or strength; "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells" [syn: exhausted, spent] [ant: unexhausted]
adjective
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out" [syn: exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn- out(a), worn out(p)]
Definition of 'Spent'
From: GCIDE
- Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
- 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. [1913 Webster]
- Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. [1913 Webster]
- Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it. [1913 Webster] Sper
Definition of 'Spent'
From: GCIDE
- Spend \Spend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer.]
- 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. [1913 Webster]
- Spend thou that in the town. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? --Isa. lv. 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
- I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. [1913 Webster]
- We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. [1913 Webster]
- Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablated,
- acquitted,
- all in,
- ausgespielt,
- beat,
- beat up,
- beaten,
- bleary,
- bone-weary,
- burned-out,
- burnt up,
- bushed,
- consumed,
- dead,
- dead-and-alive,
- dead-tired,
- deadbeat,
- depleted,
- devitalized,
- disabled,
- discharged,
- dissipated,
- dog-tired,
- dog-weary,
- done,
- done for,
- done in,
- done up,
- down the drain,
- drained,
- eaten up,
- effete,
- emptied,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- eroded,
- eviscerated,
- exhausted,
- expended,
- fagged out,
- far-gone,
- fatigued,
- fini,
- finished,
- frazzled,
- gone,
- gone to waste,
- hired,
- impoverished,
- incapacitated,
- jaded,
- knocked out,
- laid low,
- liquidated,
- lost,
- misspent,
- paid,
- paid in full,
- played out,
- pooped,
- pooped out,
- postpaid,
- prepaid,
- prostrate,
- ready to drop,
- receipted,
- remitted,
- run to seed,
- run-down,
- salaried,
- sapped,
- settled,
- shotten,
- squandered,
- tired,
- tired out,
- tired to death,
- tuckered out,
- used,
- used up,
- waged,
- washed-out,
- washed-up,
- wasted,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weary,
- weary unto death,
- whacked,
- wiped out,
- worn,
- worn away,
- worn out,
- worn-out