used
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /juːzd/
- (past of use): enPR: yo͞ozd, IPA(key): /juːzd/
Audio (US) (file)
- (auxiliary verb): IPA(key): /juːzd/, /juːst/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -uːst
Verb[edit]
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.
Adjective[edit]
used (comparative more used, superlative most used)
- That is or has or have been used.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I got used to this weather.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
Synonyms[edit]
- (having been used):
- (previously owned by someone else): pre-owned, second-hand
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Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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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