spent

Meanings

• adjective

  1. Having expended all available resources, energy, or time; spent is no longer in use or available.

  - "After the party, we were all spent."
  - "The athlete was spent after the marathon."
  - "The company's resources were spent before the project was completed."

• verb

  2. Past tense and past participle of spend.

  - "Yesterday, I spent the entire day shopping."
  - "They spent their vacation in Hawaii."
  - "We spent hours discussing the project."

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Pronunciation

1. /ˈspɛnt/
   
   
   
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Rhymes

Words rhyming with spent
mend , spend and lend , send

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Variants

List of all variants of spent that leads to same result
spent , spend , spendable , spender , spenders , spending , spends , a spent force , well spent

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Forms

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spent (adjective), spent (past tense and past participle of spend), spentness

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Etymology

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Old English spendan ‘to spend, squander, consume’, from spende ‘expenditure, expense’.

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Trivia

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1. The word spend comes from the Old English word spendan, which means ‘to spend, squander, consume’.

2. In the game of Monopoly, when all of a player's money is gone, they are ‘bankrupt’ or ‘spent’.

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Related Concepts

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1. expenditure: The amount of money or resources spent on something.

2. consumption: The act of using up resources or energy.

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Culture

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In literature, spent is often used to describe characters who have exhausted their resources or energy. In art, spent can symbolize the passage of time or the idea of being used up.

How to Memorize "spent"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a piggy bank that's empty, representing the idea of being spent.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word spent with the feeling of exhaustion or being used up.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic ‘Spend Time Eating’ to remember the past tense of spend.

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