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verb

Spend v. t. (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)

1.

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. "Spend thou that in the town." "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?"

2.

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. "I... am never loath To spend my judgment."

3.

To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

4.

To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. "We spend our years as a tale that is told."

5.

To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. "Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst."

Spend v. i. (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)

1.

To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. "He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning."

2.

To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. "The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air."

3.

To be diffused; to spread. "The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes."

4.

(Mining) To break ground; to continue working.

adjective

Spent adj.

1.

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."

2.

(Zool.) 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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... father. Yet when the frail mother went the strong man followed within a year. So then there was nothing to do but go home to Green Valley. He went. And the spirit of the vivid little mother seemed to have come with him. Every day that he spent in the town that had reared her seemed to bring her nearer. He could picture her going about the sunny roads and friendly streets and stopping to chat and neighbor with Green ...

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