You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for April 12.

Today’s word is spent, spelled s-p-e-n-t.

spent /spent/ adjective

Something that is spent has been used so that it no longer has any power or effectiveness:

Merraim-Webster: used up: CONSUMED

spent bullets/matches

After several defeats in a row, people are starting to say that the team is a spent force.

Spent bullet shells littered the ground.

Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.

As earlier generations of electric vehicles start to reach the end of their lives, preventing a pileup of spent batteries looms as a challenge.

— New York Times, "How Green Are Electric Vehicles?," 2 Mar. 2021

literary extremely tired

We arrived home spent after our long journey.

After doing her shopping, she was spent.

He plopped down in his chair, completely spent, and then fell asleep.

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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