Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Spend thou that in the town. --Shak.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not
bread? --Isa. lv. 2.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spent
adj 1: drained of energy or effectiveness; completely exhausted;
"the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "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}, {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}]
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