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SPENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spent mean?
• SPENT (adjective)
The adjective SPENT has 2 senses:
1. depleted of energy, force, or strength
2. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
Familiarity information: SPENT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Depleted of energy, force, or strength
Synonyms:
exhausted; spent
Context example:
exhausted oil wells
Sense 2
Meaning:
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
Synonyms:
dog-tired; exhausted; fagged; fatigued; gone; played out; spent; washed-out; worn-out; worn out
Context example:
you look worn out
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Context examples
Sometimes a group of people have symptoms that seem to be linked to time spent in a certain building.
(Indoor Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency)
Both greater restriction of and less time spent in play activity.
(Lansky Performance Status 70, NCI Thesaurus)
Clerval spent the last evening with us.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Horses are active day and night with most of the day spent seeking and consuming food.
(Horse, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A question about whether an individual spends or has spent much time getting ready before going out.
(Before Going Out I Spend Time Preparing, NCI Thesaurus)
In the three years after an attack, people considered mildly obese were 30 percent more likely to survive and spent fewer days in the hospital than those of normal weight, researchers found.
(Mildly Obese Fare Better after Major Heart Attack, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The day which she had spent at that place had been one of the happiest of her life.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The researchers examined the total time a patient spent with the same patients undergoing chemotherapy and their five-year survival rate.
(Social interaction affects cancer patients’ response to treatment, National Institutes of Health)
Do you remember the morning spent at Donwell?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The night following this affair—I was to go the next morning—was spent by me in deliberating on what my future conduct should be.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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