spent
/ˈspɛnt/
verb
- 1
To pay out (money).
“He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.”
- 2
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- 3
To squander.
“to spend an estate in gambling”
- 4
To exhaust, to wear out.
“The violence of the waves was spent.”
- 5
To consume, to use up (time).
“My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.”
- 6
To 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
To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
“Energy spends in the using of it.”
- 8
To be diffused; to spread.
- 9
To break ground; to continue working.
adjective
- 1
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
“a spent cartridge”
- 2
Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
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