Forspent

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    exhausted archaic, poetic

    "IV. But he felt no hunger, and unheeded Left the wine, and eager for the rest Which his limbs, forspent with travel, needed, On the couch he laid him, still undress'd."

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"IV. But he felt no hunger, and unheeded Left the wine, and eager for the rest Which his limbs, forspent with travel, needed, On the couch he laid him, still undress'd."

Etymology

From the past participle of forspend, equivalent to for- + spent.

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