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spent force

noun

Definitions

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

    • 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!

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