Definition of spent

"spent" in the verb sense

1. spend, pass

use up a period of time in a specific way

"how are you spending your summer vacation?"

2. spend, expend, drop

pay out

"spend money"

3. spend

spend completely

"I spend my pocket money in two days"

"spent" in the adjective sense

1. exhausted, spent

depleted of energy, force, or strength

"impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"

"the exhausted food sources"

"exhausted oil wells"

2. exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out, gone

drained of energy or effectiveness extremely tired completely exhausted

"the day's shopping left her exhausted"

"he went to bed dog-tired"

"was fagged and sweaty"

"the trembling of his played out limbs"

"felt completely washed-out"

"only worn-out horses and cattle"

"you look worn out"

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Quotations for spent

Ill got, ill spent. [ Proverb ]

Soon got soon spent. [ Proverb ]

Idle time not idly spent. [ Sir Henry Wotton ]

Better spent than spared. [ Proverb ]

Little goods are soon spent. [ Proverb ]

Days, that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow. [ Richard Crashaw ]

A day of such serene enjoyment spent.
Were worth an age of splendid discontent. [ James Montgomery ]

A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal,
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. [ William Shakespeare ]

He spent Michaelmas rent in Midsummer moon. [ Proverb ]

Time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost. [ Proverb ]

Lives spent in indolence, and therefore sad. [ Cowper ]

Life is half spent before we know what it is. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

That penny. is well spent that saves a groat. [ Proverb ]

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. [ John Webster ]

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late. [ Seneca ]

Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well. [ Vespasian ]

Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. [ Proverb ]

There is abundance of money spent to be laughed at. [ Proverb ]

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. [ Shakespeare ]

Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act II. Sc.1 ]

Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. [ Plaut ]

They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare ]

A crown in pocket does you more credit than an angel spent. [ Proverb ]

Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last. [ Publius Syrus ]

What is gotten over the Devil's back, is spent under his belly. [ Proverb ]

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly. [ Ovid ]

Two thirds of life are spent in hesitating, and the other third in repenting. [ E. Souvestre ]

One day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error. [ Yonge ]

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. [ Cicero ]

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to bit ourselves at last. [ William Penn ]

Love is life's end - an end, but never ending.... Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. [ Spenser ]

All those observers who have spent their lives in the study of the human heart, know less about the signs of love than the most brainless, yet sensitive woman. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Never give a moment to complaint, but utilize the time that would otherwise be spent in this way, in looking forward and actualizing the conditions you desire. [ Trine ]

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once - through inexperience, as we now perceive - we missed that happiness we might have found! [ Cowper ]

The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. [ Carlyle ]

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success. [ G. A. Sala ]

We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]

spent in Scrabble®

The word spent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters spent:

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spent in Words With Friends™

The word spent is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters spent:

PENTS
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SPENT
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Words containing the sequence spent

Words that start with spent (1 word)

Words with spent in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving spent

Shorter words in spent

en pen pent

pe pen pent

Longer words containing spent

forespent

forspent

illspent

misspent

outspent

overspent

prespent

underspent

unspent