 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spent
adjective
1: 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}, {washed-out}, {worn-out(a)},
{worn out(p)}]
2: having all been spent; "the money is all gone" [syn: {gone},
{expended}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spend
verb
1: pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your
summer vacation?" [syn: {pass}]
2: pay out; "spend money" [syn: {expend}, {drop}]
3: spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"
[also: {spent}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spent
See {spend}
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spend \Spend\, verb (used with an object) [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.
Spend thou that in the town. --Shak.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread? --Isa. lv. 2.
2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
I . . . am never loath
To spend my judgment. --Herbert.
3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to
spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a
day idly; to spend winter abroad.
We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc.
9.
5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away;
as, the violence of the waves was spent.
Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
--Knolles.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), adjective
1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
Now thou seest me
Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.
--Addison.
Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
--Dryden.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially
of fishes.
{Spent ball}, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an
object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "spent":
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
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