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Spent   /spɛnt/   Listen
verb
Spend  v. t.  (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)  
1.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. "Spend thou that in the town." "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?"
2.
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. "I... am never loath To spend my judgment."
3.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4.
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. "We spend our years as a tale that is told."
5.
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. "Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst."


Spend  v. i.  (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)  
1.
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. "He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning."
2.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. "The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air."
3.
To be diffused; to spread. "The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes."
4.
(Mining) To break ground; to continue working.


adjective
Spent  adj.  
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.
(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.





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"Spent" Quotes from Famous Books



... think so? Well, my dear friend, this is where my mother, the noblest woman in the world, and my sister, whom you know, spent six weeks with a prospect of leaving it only to make the trip to the Place de Bastion. Just think, that was five years ago, so my ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
... refrain from commending it greatly. I begged him to send me with it to the Emperor, as he had promised. He replied that he would do what he thought fit, and that I had performed my part of the business. So he gave orders that I should be well paid. These two pieces of work, on which I had spent upwards of two months, brought me in five hundred crowns: for the diamond I was paid one hundred and fifty crowns and no more; the rest was given me for the cover of the book, which, however, was worth more than a thousand, being enriched with multitudes ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... in May they spent together at a house-party near Portland, Maine; and he tried the landlocked salmon in Sebago Lake, twice. Ethel continued the subject of the cruelty of angling, in conversation, and illuminated her increasing ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... were writing formally to the committee it would be enough to decline your invitation without entering into any explanation. But the remembrance of the pleasant week I spent at your house last summer, and the tone of your letter, makes me feel as though I were writing to a personal friend. This is my excuse (if one is needed) for giving you more fully than I otherwise should, my reasons ...
— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott
... Larry spent the night in Slingerland's tent. Next morning the trapper was ready with horses at an early hour, but, owing to the presence of Sioux in the vicinity, it was thought best to wait for the work-train and ride out on the ...
— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey


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