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Antonyms for spent
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : spent |
Phonetic Transcription : spɛnt |
Definition of spent
Origin :- "to pay out or away" (money or wealth), Old English -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from Latin expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend). A general Germanic borrowing (cf. Old High German spendon, German and Middle Dutch spenden, Old Norse spenna). In reference to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c.1300.
- adj used up, gone; tired out
- In your service I have spent many toilsome days and sleepless nights.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- He spent such an evening there at the end of their first month in New York.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Here he cooked and ate his meals, and here he spent his solitary evenings.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- The honeymoon will be spent at the town-house of the groom, in York Terrace.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Haven't we spent all our surplus in keeping you up for a good marriage?
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Two millions isn't so much here, you know, and she must have spent a lot of hers.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- They belonged to the times when 30,000 men were an army, and when campaigns were spent in sieges.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- It's Bill that's spent the money on his cussed booze and gambling.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- He spent his evenings when at Hawarden in a cosy corner of the library reading.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- When the last midsummer holidays came she spent them with Harriett.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
Synonyms for spent
- all in
- bleary
- blown
- burnt-out
- bushed
- consumed
- dead
- debilitated
- depleted
- disbursed
- dissipated
- dog-tired
- done-in
- down the drain
- drained
- effete
- enervated
- exhausted
- expended
- fagged
- far-gone
- finished
- had it
- limp
- lost
- played-out
- prostrate
- ready to drop
- shattered
- shot
- thrown away
- used
- washed-up
- wasted
- weakened
- wearied
- weary
- worn out
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