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English
Etymology
From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed.
Pronunciation
Verb
used
- simple past and past participle of use
You used me!
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.
- (intransitive, auxiliary, defective, only in past tense/participle) To perform habitually; to be accustomed .
He used to live here, but moved away last year.
The club used to be frequented by locals; then, after the "incident", it used to get raided by the cops.
Adjective
used (comparative more used, superlative most used)
- That is or has or have been 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "having been used"): unused
- (antonym(s) of "previously owned by someone else"): new
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Translations
that is or has or have been used
that has or have previously been owned by someone else
- Arabic: مُسْتَعْمَل (ar) (mustaʕmal)
- Bulgarian: употребяван (bg) (upotrebjavan)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 第二手 (dì'èrshǒu), 中古 (zh) (zhōnggǔ)
- Czech: použitý (cs)
- Danish: brugt (da)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: käytetty (fi)
- French: seconde main (fr), occasion (fr), de seconde main (fr)
- Galician: usado, de segunda man
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: gebraucht (de), Second-Hand
- Greek: μεταχειρισμένος (el) (metacheirisménos)
- Hungarian: használt (hu)
- Japanese: 中古 (ja) (ちゅうこ, chūko)
- Korean: 중고 (ko) (junggo)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: naudotas, vartotas
- Macedonian: по́ловен (póloven)
- Maori: nguture
- Mongolian: хэрэглэж байсан (xereglež bajsan)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brukt (no)
- Nynorsk: brukt
- Polish: używany (pl)
- Portuguese: usado (pt), de segunda mão
- Romanian: (deja) utilizat (ro) m, (deja) întrebuințat (ro) m
- Russian: поде́ржанный (ru) (podéržannyj), б/у (ru) (b/u)
- Swedish: begagnad (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: вжи́ваний (vžývanyj), ужи́ваний (užývanyj)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
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