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Used

/juːzd/

To utilize or employ.

📖 Definitions of "Used"

verb
  1. 1

    To utilize or employ.

  2. 2

    To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)

    "soldiers who are used to hardships and danger"

  3. 3

    (except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)

    "I used to get things done."

  4. 4

    To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.

    "to use an animal cruelly"

adjective
  1. 1

    That is or has or have been used.

    "The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers."

  2. 2

    That has or have previously been owned by someone else.

    "He bought a used car."

  3. 3

    Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.

    "I got used to this weather."

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