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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Spent

/(spĕnt)/ · IPA /spɛnt/
01 a. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
  1. 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.
  2. 2.
    Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes.(Zool.)
Phrases & compounds
Spent ball — a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.