"spent force" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Evolution was not a spent force, but one still working.",
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          "text": "1921, P. G. Wodehouse, The Girl on the Boat (U.S.: Three Men and a Maid), ch. 2,\nI am a ruin, a spent force, a man without a future!"
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          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “II AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
          "text": "“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.",
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          "ref": "2008 June 17, Catherine Mayer, “Leaving Europe, Bush Eyes Legacy”, in Time:",
          "text": "Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power.",
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        "A person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust."
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          "ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “II AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
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