exhausted, spent
(adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength; “impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil”; “the exhausted food sources”; “exhausted oil wells”
exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out, gone
(adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; “the day’s shopping left her exhausted”; “he went to bed dog-tired”; “was fagged and sweaty”; “the trembling of his played out limbs”; “felt completely washed-out”; “only worn-out horses and cattle”; “you look worn out”
spend, expend, drop
(verb) pay out; “spend money”
spend
(verb) spend completely; “I spend my pocket money in two days”
spend, pass
(verb) use up a period of time in a specific way; “how are you spending your summer vacation?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spent (not comparable)
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
spent
simple past tense and past participle of spend
• Pents, pents
Source: Wiktionary
Spent, a.
1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success. Addison. Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. Dryden.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.
Spend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] Etym: [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer.]
1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2.
2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert.
3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.
5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.
Spend, v. i.
1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South.
2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon.
3. To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon.
4. (Mining)
Definition: To break ground; to continue working.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
