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Spent vs Pent - What's the difference?

spent | pent |

As adjectives the difference between spent and pent

is that spent is consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted while pent is confined in a pen, imprisoned.

As verbs the difference between spent and pent

is that spent is past tense of spend while pent is past tense of pen; alternative form of nocap=1|lang=en.

spent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
    • a spent cartridge

    Related terms

    * spent force

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spend)

    • Statistics

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Adjective

  • tense
    • en spent situasjon - a tense situation

    References

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    pent

    English

    Adjective

  • Confined in a pen, imprisoned.
    • ''My object all sublime
    ''I shall achieve in time —
    ''To let the punishment fit the crime —
    ''The punishment fit the crime;
    ''And make each prisoner pent
    ''Unwillingly represent
    ''A source of innocent merriment!
    Of innocent merriment!'' — W.S. Gilbert, '' .

    Usage notes

    Use of bare "pent", as in the Gilbert quotation above, has become less common over time. (Use of "pent up" or "pent in" remains about as common.)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pen);

    • See also

    * -pent- * pent- * penta- * pent-up

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