spent

[Spent]

If you're spent, you are completely worn out or exhausted. Almost everyone feels completely spent after climbing a mountain or running a marathon.

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Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

Adjective S.
having all been spent; "the money is all gone"

Adjective S.
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


imp. & p. p.
of Spend

a.
Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

a.
Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.


Spent

Spent , a. 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.
Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
2. (Zo'94l.) 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.

Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

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Usage Examples

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

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