dictionary definitions for "spent"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  spent
      adj 1: 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]
      2: 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)}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
     1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
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              Now thou seest me
              Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.
                                                    --Addison.
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              Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. (Zool.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of
        fishes.
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     Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an
        object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              Spend thou that in the town.          --Shak.
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              Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
              bread?                                --Isa. lv. 2.
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     2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
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              I . . . am never loath
              To spend my judgment.                 --Herbert.
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     3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to
        spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
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     4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a
        day idly; to spend winter abroad.
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              We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc.
                                                    9.
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     5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away;
        as, the violence of the waves was spent.
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              Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
                                                    --Knolles.
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