Category:Spent

Spent, a.

1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. Now thou seest me spent, overpowered, despairing of success. Addison. Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. Dryden.

2. (zoöl.)

Defn: exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object Without having sufficient force to penetrate it.