Synonyms for spent
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1. exhausted, spentadjective

   depleted of energy, force, or strength

   "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells"

   Synonyms:
   played out, exhausted, worn out(p), fatigued, fagged, worn-out(a), dog-tired, washed-out

   Antonyms:
   rested

2. exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   rested

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1. spentadjective

   Synonyms:
   exhausted, tired, consumed, worn out

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1. List of paraphrases for "spent":

   expended, devoted, past, dedicated, irradiated, invested, used, enshrined, disbursed, allocated, worn, expenditure, passed, exhausted

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1. Bill Murray:

   What would make me the happiest would be to put my boots on and for both of us to go back into work and be able to trust each other and work at the work that we both spent a lot of time developing the skill of, and hopefully do something that's good for more than just the two of us, but for a whole crew of people who are movie makers and the movie studio as well.

2. Laura Woods:

   They were seizing for salaries and policing for profit, police departments saw (asset forfeiture) as a new stream of revenue and my predecessors have abdicated their responsibility because the executive branch raised and spent money without legislative oversight.

3. Don DeLillo:

   The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

4. Michel de Montaigne:

   There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

5. Tom Frieden:

   There are so few people who've spent a lot of time in the state and local, especially local and city health departments [and] that's really quite a major issue.