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Definition of Spent

Spent
Spent Spent (sp[e^]nt), 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Spent
Spend Spend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] [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.

Meaning of Spent from wikipedia

- Look up spent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spent may refer to: Spent (band), a former indie rock band Spent (game), an online game about surviving...
- Spent (stylized SPENT) is an online game about poverty and homelessness. It was developed by advertising agency McKinney for their pro bono client Urban...
- Spent conviction legislation allows the criminal records of offenders to be amended by removing some offences after a certain period of time.[citation...
- Spent caustic is a waste industrial caustic solution that has become exhausted and is no longer useful (or spent). Spent caustics are made of sodium hydroxide...
- Spent fuel pools (SFP) are storage pools (or "ponds" in the United Kingdom) for spent fuel from nuclear reactors. They are typically 40 or more feet (12 m)...
- Time spent listening (TSL) is one of the measurements surve**** by Nielsen Audio in determining ratings for radio stations in the United States. It is...
- Spent shale or spent oil shale (also known as retorted shale) is a solid residue from the shale oil extraction process of producing synthetic shale oil...
- Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)...
- In British law and in some related legal systems, an enactment is spent if it is "exhausted in operation by the accomplishment of the purposes for which...
- Brewer's spent grain (BSG) or draff is a food waste that is a byproduct of the brewing industry that makes up 85 percent of brewing waste. BSG is obtained...