spent
verb
uk/spent/us/spent/past simple and past participle ofspend
(spend的过去式及过去分词)Paying money
- advance
- ante up (something)
- balance
- burn a hole insomeone'spocketidiom
- chargeable
- co-finance
- compensate
- congestion charge
- cough
- foot
- lash
- pay top dollaridiom
- ransom
- settle up
- shortchange
- sink intosomething
- spender
- splash out(something)
- spring forsomething
- stump
spent
adjective
uk/spent/us/spent/Something that is spent has been used so that it nolongerhas anypoweroreffectiveness:
用尽的;失效的spentbullets/matches乏弹/用过的火柴
After severaldefeatsin arow,peoplearestartingto say that theteamis a spentforce.球队经历了一连串的失利之后,人们开始认为他们已雄风不再。
literary
tired:
疲惫的Wearrivedhomespent afterourlongjourney.长途旅行之后,我们回到家时已疲惫不堪。
Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- avail
- availyourselfofsomething
- be/go heavy onsomethingidiom
- exhaust
- go through
- gobblesomethingup
- make capital out ofsomethingidiom
- max
- max out
- recycle
- spare
- swallow
- tap
- trade onsomething
- turn over
- turn tosomeone/something
- turn/usesomethingto good accountidiom
- unblock
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