spent Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb pass time in a specific way
    spend; pass.
    • how are you spending your summer vacation?
  2. verb pay out
    expend; drop; spend.
    • spend money
  3. verb spend completely
    spend.
    • I spend my pocket money in two days
  4. adjective depleted of energy, force, or strength
    exhausted.
    • impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil
    • the exhausted food sources
    • exhausted oil wells
  5. adjective satellite drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
    exhausted; dog-tired; worn out; played out; fagged; fatigued; worn-out; washed-out.
    • 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

WordNet

Spent adjective
Definitions
  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. (Zoöl.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.

Webster 1913