spent
from
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)}]
from
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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from
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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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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