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English Dictionary: spent	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spent adj depleted of energy, force, or strength; "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells" Synonym(s): exhausted, spent Antonym(s): unexhausted 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" Synonym(s): exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn- out(a), worn out(p)
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spent \Spent\ (sp[ecr]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[94]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.