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 Spent a.
 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. Zool. 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.
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