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SPENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Depleted of energy, force, or strength
Example:
exhausted oil wells
Synonyms:
exhausted; spent
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
Example:
you look worn out
Synonyms:
dog-tired; exhausted; fagged; fatigued; gone; played out; spent; washed-out; worn-out; worn out
Classified under:
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb spend
Context examples:
In addition, the researchers focused on the hours spent sitting, but did not ask participants if they took breaks during this time.
(Sitting Is Bad for Your Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I spent the night in town, for I came up yesterday to report.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Good God! What a week she must have spent!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was not wrong when I decided that his days had been spent on the sea.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Her mother rejoiced when she saw her, and we all spent a very happy evening together.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I spent a day in the search, and by evening—this very evening, Watson—I had run him down.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He spent the afternoon in a deck-chair, with closed eyes, dozing brokenly most of the time, and in the evening went early to bed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The soldier spent the whole day in doing it, and in the evening the witch proposed that he should stay one night more.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I did them in the last two vacations I spent at Lowood, when I had no other occupation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All his caution was spent in being secured of the real amount of her fortune, before he committed himself.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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