spent

Use Spent in a sentence

verb

simple past tense and past participle of spend.

used up; consumed.

tired; worn-out; exhausted.

Related forms

well-spent, adjective

Synonyms
3. weary, drained, fagged.

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verb (used with object)

to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.

to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding: Don't spend much time on it.

to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.: We spent a few days in Baltimore.

to use up, consume, or exhaust: The storm had spent its fury.

to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.

verb (used without object)

to spend money, energy, time, etc.

Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted.

Origin:
1125–75; Middle English spenden, continuing Old English -spendan (in āspendan, forspendan to spend entirely or utterly) < West Germanic < Latin expendere to pay out, expend; compare German spenden

Related forms

an·ti·spend·ing, adjective

un·der·spend, verb, un·der·spent, un·der·spend·ing.

un·spend·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. Spend, disburse, expend, squander refer to paying out money. Spend is the general word: We spend more for living expenses now. Disburse implies expending from a specific source or sum to meet specific obligations, or paying in definite allotments: The treasurer has authority to disburse funds. Expend is more formal, and implies spending for some definite and (usually) sensible or worthy object: to expend most of one's salary on necessities. Squander suggests lavish, wasteful, or foolish expenditure: to squander a legacy. 2. use, apply, devote.

Antonyms
1. earn, keep.

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spend (spɛnd)

—vb , spends, spending, spent
1.	to pay out (money, wealth, etc)
2.	(tr) to concentrate (time, effort, thought, etc) upon an object, activity, etc
3.	(tr) to pass (time) in a specific way, activity, place, etc
4.	(tr) to use up completely: the hurricane spent its force
5.	(tr) to give up (one's blood, life, etc) in a cause
6.	obsolete (intr) to be used up or exhausted
7.	informal (Brit) spend a penny to urinate

—n
8.	an amount of money spent, esp regularly, or allocated to be spent

[Old English spendan, from Latin expendere; influenced also by Old French despendre to spend, from Latin dispendere; see expend, dispense]

'spendable

—*adj*

spent (spɛnt)

—vb
1.	the past tense and past participle of spend

—*adj*
2.	used up or exhausted; consumed
3.	(of a fish) exhausted by spawning

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Word Origin & History

spend

"to pay out or away" (money or wealth), O.E. -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from L. expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend). A general Gmc. borrowing (cf. O.H.G. spendon, Ger., M.Du. spenden, O.N. spenna). In ref. to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c.1300.

Example sentences

We spent five times our current share on infrastructure, and twice as much on

research and development.

Freeman, the laboratory director at a mental hospital, spent many late nights

bent over the dissecting table at the morgue.

Farmers had money in their pockets and spent it in the town's stores.

Nights are spent with other elephant youngsters in a protected stockade.

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