We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of spent in English
Portuguese
sofrido Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "exhausted"
Examples for "exhausted"
1
Police said they would continue to search until all avenues were exhausted.
2
As a result, quotas for those programmes have yet to be exhausted.
3
We have exhausted all possible creative solutions on our side, Enria said.
4
However, they were left exhausted by the New Zealand team's dogged defence.
5
Meanwhile, his main rivals have entered government and exhausted their political capital.
1
Being fatigued; laughing; being amused; having been elected; running; having been running.
2
But she was young, and like the young, must sleep when fatigued.
3
After almost four hours of tedious, repetitive work, he was becoming fatigued.
4
Mr. Burke and King out for nardoo; the former returned much fatigued.
5
And he was so mortally fatigued with this struggle in the dark.
1
Night came and the fagged party in disappointment once more lay down.
2
About a mile from the shore, the strength of the fugitives fagged.
3
He had long noticed that the Home Secretary looked fagged and ill.
4
The march had been terrific, and horses and men were nearly fagged.
5
And for a long time Margie has been looking thin and fagged.
1
I see nothing, and I'm too dog-tired to go out and look.
2
He was dog-tired, for he had had little sleep the past week.
3
I'm dog-tired and the mosquitoes are beginning to find that we're here.
4
I did not care; I was dog-tired and I wanted but one thing-bed
5
By the time we came to the cairn I was dog-tired.
1
It also takes up the old worn-out particles; this makes it impure.
2
Just like herself: tired, worn-out, never any good even to start with.
3
Age and sorrow weigh with a double weight on his worn-out body.
4
He pointed in different directions, looking with disgust on the worn-out men.
5
Her little feet in the shabby, worn-out shoes scarcely touched the floor.
1
This situation played out countless times; different settings, different boys, different words.
2
A dangerous game was played out in the halls of secret government.
3
The game can be played out over days, weeks, or even months.
4
Actually, this scenario has played out countless times in the Earth's history.
5
The Coroner's Court: Frank Keeley played out his familiar routine that morning.
1
My environment is restored, though with a somewhat washed-out look to it.
2
But I had taken against the washed-out tunic I'd put on yesterday.
3
The interior of the van looked like a gray, washed-out video feed.
4
However, the image of her washed-out face would not leave my mind.
5
He held it out with his queer washed-out smile, and Steinmetz smiled.
Usage of spent in English
1
His longest project to date, Megos spent 11 days working the problem.
2
She had only spent a few weeks in Europe some years ago.
3
Thousands of people in Christchurch have spent a second night without power.
4
The years her family spent in the Amsterdam home were happy times.
5
He spent a great deal of time working out the tom-tom effect.
6
Wisely spent investment in national infrastructure is a mark of good government.
7
He has spent the last year building a large house for us.
8
Many spent the Christmas and new year holidays at home in bed.
9
Bertie Ahern spent several days this week explaining Ireland to Romano Prodi.
10
The government said the money raised would be spent on public welfare.
11
He graduated from Sewanee at nineteen, then spent a year in Europe.
12
You'd certainly hope so, seeing the billions and billions the government spent.
13
The EU and Turkey have spent years pursuing increasingly difficult accession talks.
14
The days they spent together in New York were almost as good.
15
The Nonhuman Rights Project has spent seven years carefully preparing these cases.
16
The Captain took Deets's job and spent his days ranging far ahead.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Spent through the time
Spent across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Australia
Common
Ireland
Common
More variants