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Spent

verb
/ˈspɛnt/
Word Frequency: 50.9

Definitions

1.verbTo pay out (money).
"He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper."
2.verbTo bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
3.verbTo squander.
"to spend an estate in gambling"
4.verbTo exhaust, to wear out.
"The violence of the waves was spent."
5.verbTo consume, to use up (time).
"My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs."
6.verbTo have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
"The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen."
7.verbTo waste or wear away; to be consumed.
"Energy spends in the using of it."
8.verbTo be diffused; to spread.
9.verbTo break ground; to continue working.
10.adjectiveConsumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
"a spent cartridge"
11.adjectiveOf fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.

Synonyms

expendedplayed outexhaustedfatiguedworn-outworn outwashed-outtiredgonebushedknackereddepleted

Rhymes With

lamentaugmentcontentpresentdiscontentdissenttormentassent
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