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say it: spent
spent is an adjective meaning "depleted of energy, force, or strength". It is pronounced /ˈspɛnt/ — spent. It carries 2 recorded senses.
depleted of energy, force, or strength
“impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil”
“the exhausted food sources”
“exhausted oil wells”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.