Definitions for spent
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. exhausted, spent(adj)

   depleted of energy, force, or strength

   "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells"

2. exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)(adj)

   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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spent(Adjective)

   Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.

   a spent cartridge

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Spent

   of Spend

2. Spent(adj)

   exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force

3. Spent(adj)

   exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes

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1. Spent

   Spent was an American Indie Rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey consisting of singer/guitarist John King, guitarist/singer/keyboardist Annie Hayden, bassist/occasional vocalist Joe Weston and drummer Ed Radich.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Spent

   spent, pa.t. and pa.p. of spend.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spent

   From expend: said of a mast broken by accident, in contradistinction to one shot away.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spent' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #861

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spent' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1006

How to pronounce spent?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say spent in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of spent in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of spent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of spent in a Sentence

1. Representative Khanna:

   Renato was a law school roommate of mine and he knows everything about these hearings, i spent a good amount of time talking to him. He's a former prosecutor and so he said, speak less, ask more questions, speak slowly, don't give a long preamble, don't be a politician.

2. Jimmy Kimmel:

   My mother, unbeknownst to me, spent the weekend making Oscar cookies, and she put glitter [ on them ], I don’t know if it was edible or what. Cookies which she then packed in disposable Tupperware boxes and brought to the show. But Kimmel's mother didn't stop there. The concerned mother proceeded to make sure all the Oscars attendees got their fill of sugar and offered her cookies the stars during the show.

3. James Meyers:

   They’re not focusing on the crimes I think they should be focusing on, that hour the cops sat out there with me, the hour and a half I was down in the magistrate's office could have been spent somewhere else.

4. Laura Woods:

   They were seizing for salaries and policing for profit, police departments saw (asset forfeiture) as a new stream of revenue and my predecessors have abdicated their responsibility because the executive branch raised and spent money without legislative oversight.

5. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:

   The same people who spent weeks screaming that impeachment was so urgent now decided it could wait indefinitely while they check the political winds and look for some new talking points.

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