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spent

spɛnt
WordNet
Interesting fact
18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation
  1. (adj) spent
    depleted of energy, force, or strength "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil","the exhausted food sources","exhausted oil wells"
  2. (adj) spent
    drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted "the day's shopping left her exhausted","he went to bed dog-tired","was fagged and sweaty","the trembling of his played out limbs","felt completely washed-out","only worn-out horses and cattle","you look worn out"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying earthworms
  1. Spent
    (Zoöl) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.
  2. Spent
    Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. "Now thou seest me Spent , overpowered, despairing of success.", "Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States
  1. spent
    Nearly or quite exhausted or worn out; having lost force or vitality; inefficient; impotent: generally in a comparative sense. A spent deer or other animal is one that has been chased or wounded nearly to death. A spent ball is a flying ball (from a gun) that has so nearly lost its impulse as to be unable to penetrate an object struck by it, though it may occasionally inflict a dangerous contused wound. A spent bill of lading or other commercial document is one that has fulfilled its purpose and should be canceled.
  2. spent
    Exhausted by spending or spawning; of fish, having spawned.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers
  1. (adj) Spent
    exhausted: impotent: of fish, exhausted by spawning
  2. (pa.t., pa.p) Spent
    spent of spend.
Quotations
Marcel Marceau
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marcel Marceau
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
Proverb
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
Junius
Samuel Butler
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler
What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
Robert of Doncaste
Tryon Edwards
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Tryon Edwards
Usage in the news

WASHINGTON, Nov 4— In his five years as president of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Ronald R Peterson has spent much of his time trying to make ends meet. nytimes.com

Otis Birdsong , who spent 12 seasons in the NBA, joined WFAA Saturday morning to talk about the 2-Star Basketball Camp that runs from July 16-20 at the Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center in Dallas. faa.com

We spent a lot of time this summer tying the success of Chicago's defense to the performance of defensive tackle Tommie Harris, who was hoping to overcome knee problems and rebound off a sub-par year. espn.go.com

Jack Danielson, 83, spent final 30 years in Forest Lake. forestlaketimes.com

He and his administration spent last weekend blaming the explosion of violence against America in the Middle East on a moronic anti-Muhammad video that's been on YouTube for months. appeal-democrat.com

South Africa's Jacob Zuma spent $28 million of public money to make his house cooler. globalpost.com

I spent 12 months in Vietnam as a member of the US Army (1968-69). knoxnews.com

A hard rain turned the red-dirt driveway in front of the Blockers ' house into a lake on one of the nights I spent there. nytimes.com

RENTON – Zach Miller spent the 2011 season – his first in Seattle – mostly as a blocker , but the sure-handed tight end is back to being a productive receiver again. thenewstribune.com

Zach Miller spent the 2011 season &ndash. thenewstribune.com

Almost seven years have passed since I spent some time in the Middle East. pbs.org

Carter spent the last four seasons as an assistant at Western Michigan. kansascity.com

He spent 69 years of his life in Wichita, Kan. cassville-democrat.com

750 million spent in TV ads in 9 states, including Wisconsin. channel3000.com

I've spent a lot of time at the public library. allure.com

Usage in scientific papers

While the walk on the quotiented graph is described by equation (4), the coefficient probably comes from the average time spent in each block.
Random spread on the family of small-world networks

We investigate the distribution of the time spent by a random walker to the right of a boundary moving with constant velocity v .
Statistics of the occupation time for a random walk in the presence of a moving boundary

What can be said about the shape of C ? Since p > pc (q), there is little cost in having large volume , and the price is spent around its boundary .
The Random-Cluster Model

During this stay, the system can oscillate between states 1 and 2, so that the value of P depends on the time spent at resonance and at some values of ˜ε it turns to zero.
Effects of nonlinear sweep in the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg effect

Thus the reduction of the shear modulus is only half that expected from the spent energy.
Energy landscape - a key concept for the dynamics of glasses and liquids

Usage in literature

The next day was spent in riotous rejoicing. "A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year" by Edwin Emerson

At last the storm spent itself. "The Wind Before the Dawn" by Dell H. Munger

I spent a week at Brunswick, in an expensive hotel. "The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller" by George Müller

But he might as well have spent the same time studying the face of the Sphynx. "Doctor Jones' Picnic" by S. E. Chapman

He afterwards spent some time in Germany, and on his return to England was incorporated M.A. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2" by Various

A large number of men spent a half, and even three-quarters of their earnings in drink. "The Message" by Alec John Dawson

Days come during every week when time is spent in the study of laundry chemistry. "Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements" by Various

The first night the Battalion spent in camp there was a terrible thunder-storm, one of the worst in years. "The Red Watch" by J. A. Currie

We spent thirty hours over it, and that was considered good going. "A Padre in France" by George A. Birmingham

We've spent one pleasant morning together, haven't we? "The Wide, Wide World" by Susan Warner

Usage in poetry
That age is best, which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times, still succeed the former.
God of all beauty, though the world is thine,
Our faith grows often faint, oft hope is spent;
Show us Thyself in all things fair and fine,
Teach us the stars' content.
I give back to the earth what the earth gave,
All to the furrow, none to the grave,
The candle's out, the spirit's vigil spent;
Sight may not follow where the vision went.
When spent with endless Grief I die at last
Delia may come, and see my poor Remains,—
Oh Delia, after such an Absence past,
Can'st thou still love, and not forget my Pains?
'Twas long after, I came to know
My gift she never spent,
But gave to one of greater woe,
And wearily she went . . .
To be of charity a part,—
That stabbed her to the heart.
Ah, for those nights on the sand
Under the palms by the sea,
For the strange dream of those days
Spent in the passionate land,
For your youth given to me,
I am your debtor always!