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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