Synonyms for spent

Grammar : Adj

Spell : spent

Phonetic Transcription : spɛnt

Top 10 synonyms for spent

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Définition 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

Antonyms for spent

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