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verb

Spend v. t. (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)

1.

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. "Spend thou that in the town." "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?"

2.

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. "I... am never loath To spend my judgment."

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."

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."

Spend v. i. (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)

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."

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."

3.

To be diffused; to spread. "The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes."

4.

(Mining) To break ground; to continue working.

adjective

Spent adj.

1.

Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. "Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success." "Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground."

2.

(Zool.) 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.

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Etymology of 'Spent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spent" Quotes from Famous Books

... and was buried in the royal vault; and at night she came out and went far away from the city to a great cave in a lonely country where dwelt the demons and evil spirits who were her servants. She now spent her life in wickedness. She it was who put it into the heads of so many sensible people to contend for the crown, and it was with joy that she saw them carried out to the asylum. Many other evil thoughts she put into ...

— Ting-a-ling • Frank Richard Stockton

... down the hall was the body of a young Rulan. Blaine shuddered as he saw it was headless. The ray had nearly missed that time, its energy spent before complete disintegration was effected. The girl lay still at his feet. With quick fingers he frisked the guard, finding his ray pistol and one gas grenade. What was he to do with the big fellow? He ought to let him have it, but somehow ...

— The Copper-Clad World • Harl Vincent

... of the horse hunters on the scene at the opportune moment was soon explained by Peggy, who spent a busy hour relating all that had occurred since they left the camp. Roy, she explained, was still at the hotel in Blue Creek, but mending rapidly. She and the detective had encountered the horse hunters as the aeroplane was on its return journey, and, guessing ...

— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham

... "with somewhat he added" hung them in the chimney over night before making a diagnosis.[6] He professed to find stolen goods as well and fell foul of the courts in one instance, probably because the woman who consulted him could not pay the shilling fee.[7] He was arraigned and spent a term in prison. No doubt many of the witch physicians knew the inside of prisons and had returned afterwards to successful practice. Redman, "whom some say is a Conjurer, others say, He is an honest and able phisitian," had been in prison, but nevertheless he had afterwards "abundance of Practice" ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... others, yet more striking, have been related to me by credible and competent witnesses familiar with a more primitive condition of the Anglo-American world. An acute observer of natural phenomena, whose childhood and youth were spent in the interior of one of the newer New England States, has often told me that when he established his home in the forest, he always distinctly heard, in still weather, the plash of horses' feet, when they forded a small ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

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