overspent

verb

past tense of overspend
as in depleted

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspent
  1. depleted
  2. exhausted
  3. consumed
  4. spent
  5. splurged
  6. squandered
  7. wasted
  8. lost
Verb
  • The 2026 Social Security trustees report projects that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund will be depleted in the fourth quarter of 2032.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The war has also depleted some of the Pentagon’s most important missile stocks, leaving fewer available for another major conflict.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of depleted
Verb
  • Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2032, with the combined retirement and disability trust funds exhausted by around 2033 or 2034.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The result was a landscape repeatedly cleared and exhausted for cotton and other cash crops.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of exhausted
Verb
  • Only later did doctors realize that the genetic material had probably come from a mushroom that the patient had consumed, and not from a pathogen.
    — Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Moisture is the biggest concern because damp tea bags can develop mold and should not be consumed.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of consumed
Verb
  • While they’ve been spotted enjoying glitzy dinners and events in historic villas with friends in Saint-Tropez and Capri, really, the Clooneys have spent most of the summer at their home on Lake Como.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of spent
Verb
  • E-commerce boomed during the pandemic, when shoppers, flush with stimulus cash, splurged on new items.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026
  • While shopping for purses, Cardi also splurged on a pair of red knee-high boots with gold heels.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
Definition of splurged
Verb
  • The Ridley Scott of yore would not have squandered such an opportunity.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • That was the main takeaway when watching Coleman’s 2024 and 2025 tape, as he was regularly squandered in the Auburn offense.
    — Dane Brugler, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of squandered
Verb
  • Spraying the whole plant—the leaves and stems—means some water is being wasted because plants need water near their roots.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Those particular fans in Cleveland who wasted precious hours of their lives Saturday afternoon at an NFL preseason game, then booed Deshaun Watson throughout his time on the field?
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of wasted
Verb
  • Conversely, someone with a BMI in the normal range could have lost considerable muscle while retaining excess body fat.
    — Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Tens of thousands of children across the two states have lost food assistance.
    — Cuyler Dunn, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
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“Overspent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspent. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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