- [usually before noun] that has been used, so that it cannot be used again
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- (formal) very tired synonym exhausted
- After the gruelling test, he felt totally spent.
Idioms
See spent in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya spent force
- a person or group that no longer has any power or influence
- The opposition party is now a spent political force.
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