'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]

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