used
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- (past of use): enPR: yo͞ozd, IPA: /juːzd/, SAMPA: /ju:zd/
- (auxiliary verb): IPA: /juːzd/, /juːst/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːst
[edit] Verb
used
- Simple past tense and past participle of use.
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
- You used me!
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
- (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
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used (no comparative or superlative)
- That is or has or have been used.
- The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers.
- That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
- He bought a used car.
- Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
- I got used to this weather.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.
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- (having been used):
- (previously owned by someone else): pre-owned, second-hand
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That is or has or have been used
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That has or have previously been owned by someone else
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accustomed
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