Meaning of spent force | Babel Free

Definitions

A person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust.

Examples

“Evolution was not a spent force⟳, but one still working.”

“1921, P. G. Wodehouse, The Girl on the Boat (U.S.: Three Men and a Maid), ch. 2, I am a ruin, a spent force⟳, a man without a future!”

““You remember⟳ those powerful end-of-term addresses he used to make⟳ to us? Well, he couldn't have⟳ made them if he hadn't had the stuff all typed out in his grasp, so that he could read⟳ it. Without his notes, as he calls them, he's a spent force⟳.” [...] In stating that the Woosters never give⟳ up, I was in error. These words caught me amidships and took all the fighting spirit out of me, leaving me a spent force⟳.”

“Bush already appeared to be a spent force⟳, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power.”

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