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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. depleted of energy, force, or strength;
- Example: "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"
- Example: "the exhausted food sources"
- Example: "exhausted oil wells"
[syn: exhausted, spent]

2. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted;
- Example: "the day's shopping left her exhausted"
- Example: "he went to bed dog-tired"
- Example: "was fagged and sweaty"
- Example: "the trembling of his played out limbs"
- Example: "felt completely washed-out"
- Example: "only worn-out horses and cattle"
- Example: "you look worn out"
[syn: exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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)]