expended

expended
   killed
   Mainly military use, treating soldiers as merely another resource like ammunition:
    'And what do you mean about me being expended'... 'He has wanted to kill you.' (L. Thomas, 1978 — this is a rare nonmilitary example)
   Expendable is the number of soldiers you can afford to have killed or wounded in a battle, or someone whose life may be sacrificed:
    'You're what they call "expendable".' Clark nodded with sad honesty, (ibid.)

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  • expended — adj. nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange. Syn: gone, spent. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • expended — index irredeemable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Expended — Expend Ex*pend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Expending}.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, and cf. {Spend}.] To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • expended — un·expended; …   English syllables

  • expended case — iššautoji tūta statusas T sritis Gynyba apibrėžtis Po šūvio likusi šaudmens dalis. Iššautos tūtos surenkamos ir pakartotinai naudojamos komplektuojant artilerijos šaudmenis. atitikmenys: angl. empty case; expended case; fired case; spent case;… …   Artilerijos terminų žodynas

  • expended — adjective Spent; used up; exhausted. Ant: unexpended …   Wiktionary

  • expended — Synonyms and related words: ablated, acquitted, by the board, consumed, depleted, discharged, dissipated, eroded, forfeit, forfeited, gone, hired, irretrievable, liquidated, long lost, lost, lost to, out the window, paid, paid in full, postpaid,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • expended — ex·pend || ɪk spend v. spend; use up, consume …   English contemporary dictionary

  • expended — Actually paid out or disbursed. School Dist. v Smith, 82 Or 443, 161 P 706 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • gone expended spent — exhausted exhausted adj. 1. same as {burned out}, 1. [WordNet sense 1+3] Syn: burned out(prenominal), burnt out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, fatigued, played out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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