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Etymology

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From Middle English used, equivalent to use +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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used

  1. simple past and past participle of use
    You used me! You never loved me at all!
    • 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.
  2. In used to.

Adjective

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used (comparative more used, superlative most used)

  1. That is or has or have been used.
    Antonym: unused
    Hyponyms: little-used, oft-used, well-used, widely-used
    The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
  2. That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
    He bought a used car.
    Synonyms: pre-owned, second-hand
    Antonym: new
  3. In used to.

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