spent

/ˈspɛnt/

verb

  1. 1

    To pay out (money).

    He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
  2. 2

    To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

  3. 3

    To squander.

    to spend an estate in gambling
  4. 4

    To exhaust, to wear out.

    The violence of the waves was spent.
  5. 5

    To consume, to use up (time).

    My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
  6. 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. 7

    To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

    Energy spends in the using of it.
  8. 8

    To be diffused; to spread.

  9. 9

    To break ground; to continue working.

adjective

  1. 1

    Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.

    a spent cartridge
  2. 2

    Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.

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