Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having been put to use and therefore unavailable for use.
  • adjective Depleted of energy, force, or strength; exhausted.
  • adjective Depleted or nearly depleted of fissionable material.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nearly or quite exhausted or worn out; having lost force or vitality; inefficient; impotent: generally in a comparative sense.
  • Exhausted by spending or spawning; of fish, having spawned.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.
  • adjective a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of spend.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective depleted of energy, force, or strength
  • adjective drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word spent.

Examples

  • The Differential Calculus is begun and the remainder of the term spent on exercises in differentiation of functions.

    The University of Virginia Record 1916

  • The Differential Calculus is begun and the remainder of the term spent on exercises in differentiation of functions.

    University of Virginia Record 1915

  • I guess a quarter of the time of the term spent campaigning is better than half.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2010

  • : I guess a quarter of the time of the term spent campaigning is better than half.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2010

  • I guess a quarter of the time of the term spent campaigning is better than half.

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2010

  • Joseph Jackson didn't read the contract he signed for the boys; he thought he was committing them for one year but in effect Motown locked them in for five; their royalty rate amounted to roughly a dime per album -- say $100,000 for a million records sold -- minus whatever the label spent on the band, for recording and just about anything else.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • : I guess a quarter of the time of the term spent campaigning is better than half.

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2010

  • Fearless album, and last week the title spent its 26th week at #1 on

    unknown title 2009

  • Jay Hammond, who in the last two years of his term spent six weeks a year at his remote Lake Clark homestead, according to his former chief of staff, Jerry Reinwand.

    Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News 2008

  • If any of the time that this title spent in production limbo was spent on improving its dub, it doesn't show.

    Anime News Network 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.