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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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