spent
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (2)
- depleted of energy, force, or strength“impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil”“the exhausted food sources”“exhausted oil wells”Synonyms: exhausted
- 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”Synonyms: exhausteddog-tiredfaggedfatiguedplayed outwashed-outworn-out(a)worn out(p)
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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
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]