spent

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past simple and past participle of spend

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

spent bullets/matches

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

tired:

We arrived home spent after our long journey.

completely used to the point of no longer having any power or effectiveness:

Radio signals enabled recovery of the spent rocket 25 miles from the launch site.

Spent also means having no energy left:

After doing her shopping, she was spent.