Word Meanings - SPENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.

Additional info about word: SPENT

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. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPENT)

• Past
• Spent
• gone by
• elapsed
• departed
• late

Related words: (words related to SPENT)

• ELAPS
  A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• ELAPSE
  To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.
• DEPARTER
  1. One who refines metals by separation. 2. One who departs.
• DEPARTABLE
  Divisible. Bacon.
• SPENT
  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. (more info) 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
• DEPART
  distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. 1. To part; to divide; to separate. Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from
• ELAPSION
  The act of elapsing.
• DEPARTMENT STORE
  A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• RELAPSING
  Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever , an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions
• MISSPENT
  of Misspend.
• RELAPSER
  One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
• UNDEPARTABLE
  Incapable of being parted; inseparable. Chaucer. Wyclif.
• IRRELAPSABLE
  Not liable to relapse; secure. Dr. H. More.
• DELAPSATION
  See RAY
• LAELAPS
  A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
• SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
  A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food
• RELAPSE
  To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide. They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse. Waterland. (more info) 1. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
• DELAPSION
  A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.