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Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.
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Meaning of "spent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPENT

spent  [spɛnt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spent is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb spent in English.

WHAT DOES SPENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Joe Matt is an American cartoonist. Matt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started drawing comics in 1987 and is best known for his autobiographical work, Peepshow. In addition to his cartooning career, he is known for his large collection of vintage Gasoline Alley comic strips. Matt lived in Canada from 1988 to 2002. He currently lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

Definition of spent in the English dictionary

The definition of spent in the dictionary is used up or exhausted; consumed. Other definition of spent is exhausted by spawning.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SPENT

PRESENT

Present
I spend
you spend
he/she/it spends
we spend
you spend
they spend
Present continuous
I am spending
you are spending
he/she/it is spending
we are spending
you are spending
they are spending
Present perfect
I have spent
you have spent
he/she/it has spent
we have spent
you have spent
they have spent
Present perfect continuous
I have been spending
you have been spending
he/she/it has been spending
we have been spending
you have been spending
they have been spending
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I spent
you spent
he/she/it spent
we spent
you spent
they spent
Past continuous
I was spending
you were spending
he/she/it was spending
we were spending
you were spending
they were spending
Past perfect
I had spent
you had spent
he/she/it had spent
we had spent
you had spent
they had spent
Past perfect continuous
I had been spending
you had been spending
he/she/it had been spending
we had been spending
you had been spending
they had been spending
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will spend
you will spend
he/she/it will spend
we will spend
you will spend
they will spend
Future continuous
I will be spending
you will be spending
he/she/it will be spending
we will be spending
you will be spending
they will be spending
Future perfect
I will have spent
you will have spent
he/she/it will have spent
we will have spent
you will have spent
they will have spent
Future perfect continuous
I will have been spending
you will have been spending
he/she/it will have been spending
we will have been spending
you will have been spending
they will have been spending
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would spent
you would spent
he/she/it would spent
we would spent
you would spent
they would spent
Conditional continuous
I would be spending
you would be spending
he/she/it would be spending
we would be spending
you would be spending
they would be spending
Conditional perfect
I would have spent
you would have spent
he/she/it would have spent
we would have spent
you would have spent
they would have spent
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been spending
you would have been spending
he/she/it would have been spending
we would have been spending
you would have been spending
they would have been spending
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you spend
we let´s spend
you spend
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to spend
Past participle
spent
Present Participle
spending
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPENT


bent
bɛnt
cent
sɛnt
comment
ˈkɒmɛnt
consent
kənˈsɛnt
content
ˈkɒntɛnt
event
ɪˈvɛnt
extent
ɪkˈstɛnt
forespent
fɔːˈspɛnt
forspent
fɔːˈspɛnt
meant
mɛnt
misspent
ˌmɪsˈspɛnt
overspent
ˌəʊvəˈspɛnt
pent
pɛnt
prevent
prɪˈvɛnt
rent
rɛnt
repent
rɪˈpɛnt
represent
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt
sent
sɛnt
unspent
ʌnˈspɛnt
went
wɛnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPENT

spend
spend a penny
spendable
spendall
spender
spending
spending money
spending power
spending spree
spends
spendthrift
spendy
Spengler
Spenser
Spenserian
Spenserian sonnet
Spenserian stanza
spent force
spent fuel
spent gnat

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPENT

arpent
erumpent
outspent
parpent
perpent
sea serpent
serpent
strepent
stupent
underspent
well-spent

Synonyms and antonyms of spent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SPENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «spent» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of spent

Translation of «spent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPENT

Find out the translation of spent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pasado
570 millions of speakers

English

spent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खर्च
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أمضى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

провел
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

passei
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অতিবাহিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dépensé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dibelanjakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verbraucht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

使用済みの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지출
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngginakaken
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiêu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கழித்தார்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खर्च केला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

harcanmış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esaurito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spędził
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

провів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a petrecut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πέρασε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spandeer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bringade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

brukt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spent

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPENT»

The term «spent» is very widely used and occupies the 3.619 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of spent
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «spent».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «spent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «spent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spent

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «SPENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spent.
1
Lamar Alexander
We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
2
Antonin Artaud
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
3
Jeffrey Bernard
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
4
Satya Bhabha
The magical tapestry that 'Midnight's Children' unfolded became a part of a journey of self-discovery as I spent time close to my roots during the shooting.
5
Suzy Bogguss
Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.
6
Jo Bonner
Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.
7
Paul Bremer
When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.
8
Bill Budge
I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.
9
Barbara Bush
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
10
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPENT»

Discover the use of spent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
A leading evolutionary psychologist probes the unconscious instincts behind American consumer culture Illuminating the hidden reasons for why we buy what we do, Spent applies evolutionary psychology to the sensual wonderland of marketing ...
Geoffrey Miller, 2009
2
Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Start Living Again
In this revolutionary book, Dr. Lipman is the first to connect the dots in a constellation of symptoms, offering a proven solution to combat the pervasive syndrome he calls Spent.
Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, 2008
3
Handbook of Spent Hydroprocessing Catalysts: Regeneration, ...
This handbook serves scientists and researchers interested in any aspect of spent hydroprocessing catalysts.
Meena Marafi, Anthony Stanislaus, Edward Furimsky, 2010
4
Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy
How to choose the forms of funding to achieve stated goals How to measure the impact of grants or programs When to be patient and stick with a winning strategy and when to abandon a strategy that isn’t working This is a book for everyone ...
Paul Brest, Hal Harvey, 2010
5
Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict
Spent is Avis Cardella's timely, deeply personal, and shockingly dramatic exploration of our cultural need to spend, and of what happens when someone is consumed by the desire to consume.
Avis Cardella, 2010
6
Time Well Spent: Getting Things Done Through Effective Time ...
Organisation and modification of major work habits can turn people into high-performing professionals with control over their work and life. Time Well Spent teaches you how to be efficient and accomplish more with less effort.
Lyndon Jones, 2009
7
Safety Related Issues of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Safety Related Issues of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 26-29 September 2005
J.D.B. Lambert, K.K. Kadyrzhanov, 2007
8
How I Spent My Last Night On Earth
Something strange is happening in the parking lot of Time Zone High: The established cliques aren’t in their usual gathering places.
Todd Strasser, 2012
9
Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel ...
3.1 BACKGROUND ON SPENT FUEL POOL STORAGE After a power reactor is shut down, its nuclear fuel continues to produce heat from radioactive decay (see FIGURE 1.2). Although only one-third of the fuel in the reactor core is replaced ...
Committee on the Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies, 2006
10
Spent Cartridges of Revolution: An Anthropological History ...
Daniel Nugent's approach combines an emphasis on peasants' own perceptions of Mexican society after the revolution with an analysis of the organization and formation of state power.
Daniel Nugent, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spent is used in the context of the following news items.
1
I spent 2 weeks using only cash - here's how 14 days changed the …
Sethi is not the only one to advocate the cash-only diet. Research shows that people spend significantly more when using credit cards instead of cash, and some ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
2
Almost £55000 spent fighting general election in Horsham and …
UKIP's Peter Grace, who finished second behind Tory Nick Herbert in the Arundel and South Downs poll, spent the most, with his returns totalling £7,307.37 in ... «West Sussex County Times, Jul 15»
3
Iowa's Fortune 1000 Companies Spent $1.2 Million on Lobbying in …
July 1, 2015 -- MapLight examined the political spending of Iowa's five largest public companies, including the amount they spent lobbying Congress and federal ... «MAPLight.org, Jul 15»
4
Americans worked even longer hours last year
The number of minutes Americans spent working in 2014 increased by seven ... The BLS' annual American Time Use Survey found that Americans spent an ... «Fortune, Jun 15»
5
SRS contractor reduces spent fuel hazards
Spent fuel project personnel at the Savannah River Site recently implemented the use of a new platform that increases efficiency and reduces hazards to ... «Aiken Standard, Jun 15»
6
Time Spent In Apps Up 63 Percent Over Past Two Years, But Apps …
Today's app stores each may host well over a million apps, but consumers only use roughly 26 or 27 of these per month, according to new data from Nielsen out ... «TechCrunch, Jun 15»
7
This Is How Successful Leaders Spent Their Teenage Years
Most of these people spent a massive amount of time alone when they were kids and young adults. And most of these people still spend a much larger ... «TIME, May 15»
8
Contracts reveal how $95 million was spent on Rim Fire
(KCRA) —It was a forest fire that charred mountain after mountain of forest and parkland -- and the federal government spent a mountain of money to put it out. «KCRA Sacramento, May 15»
9
Global Market for Nuclear Spent Fuel - Focus on Dry Storage 2015
NEW YORK, April 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) or used nuclear fuel is fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear power reactor at a nuclear ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
10
Cash payments plummet to £18 out of every £100 spent
Interestingly, £15.09 in every £100 is now spent via 'faster payment' methods such as mobile and internet banking as well as contactless payments. While they ... «Moneywise Magazine, Apr 15»

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