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Webster 1913 Edition
Spent
Spent
(spĕnt)
, Adj.
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.
(Zool.)
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.
Definition 2024
spent
spent
English
Adjective
spent (not comparable)
Related terms
Translations
used up
Verb
spent
- simple past tense and past participle of spend
Statistics
Most common English words before 1923: marriage · religious · allow · #875: spent · soldiers · speech · fast