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Definition of Spents

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 Spents from wikipedia

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- 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 conviction legislation allows the criminal records of offenders to be amended by removing some offences after a certain period of time.[citation...
- 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...
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- part in various productions in the Abbey Theatre and Radio Éireann. Coogan spent many summer holidays in the town of Castlecomer in County Kilkenny, his...
- Stolarz in the second round, 45th overall, of the 2012 NHL entry draft. He spent two seasons playing with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, the Flyers' American...
- 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...
- Costello was acting boss of the Luciano crime family. In the 1950s, he spent several years in prison for tax evasion. Costello retired in 1957 after...