x-refthe past tense and past participle of spend/ spend的过去式和过去分词
spent2adjectiveadj
1USE somethingalready used, and now empty or useless 用完的;失效的
He tried to eject the spent cartridge and reload.
他想弹出空弹夹,重新装子弹。
spent matches
用过的火柴
2a spent forceFAILif a political idea or organization is a spentforce, it no longer has any power or influence 不再有影响力的思想;已经失势的集团
5By the 1930s, the party was largely a spent force.
到20世纪30年代,该党派基本上成了一股没落的力量。
nSocialism had become a spent political force.
Examples from the Corpus
a spent force• But after four consecutiveGeneralElectiondefeats, is Laboura spent force?• Jesse Jackson, who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, is a spent force.• On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force.• They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.