| spent | 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. <zoology> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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