Definitions for bought

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Spelling: [bawt]

IPA: /bɔt/

Bought is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in bought (bghotu).

Definitions for bought

noun

1. an act or instance of buying.
2. something bought or to be bought; purchase:
3. a bargain:

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.

Idioms

1. buy it, Slang. to get killed:

adjective

1. South Midland and Southern U.S. store-bought.

Verb phrases

1. buy down, to lower or reduce (the mortgage interest rate) by means of a buy-down.
2. buy in, to buy a supply of; accumulate a stock of. to buy back one's own possession at an auction. to undertake a buy-in. Also, buy into.
3. buy into, to purchase a share, interest, or membership in:
4. buy off, to get rid of (a claim, opposition, etc.) by payment; purchase the noninterference of; bribe:
5. buy out, to secure all of (an owner or partner's) share or interest in an enterprise:
6. buy up, to buy as much as one can of something or as much as is offered for sale:

verb (used with object)

1. to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
2. to acquire by exchange or concession:
3. to hire or obtain the services of:
4. to bribe:
5. to be the monetary or purchasing equivalent of:
6. Chiefly Theology. to redeem; ransom.
7. Cards. to draw or be dealt (a card):
8. Informal. to accept or believe: to be deceived by:

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become a purchaser.

Origin of bought

before 1000; Middle English byen, variant of byggen, buggen, Old English bycgan; cognate with Old Saxon buggjan, Gothic bugjan to buy, Old Norse byggja to lend, rent

Examples for bought

On Oct. 7, I bought my ticket to Kiev 45 minutes before my flight.

In fact, I wrote 212 pages of a novel called The Discovery of Sex that was bought, and I pulled it.

Where is the bit of new rope, Cathleen, was bought in Connemara?

That was just after Mr. Hichens had bought the house and wanted to come into it.

Eudora was a mere infant when Phidias bought her of a poor goatherd in Phelle.

Along the way, Brinsley turned into a drug store, but it is not clear whether he bought anything.

When a top Mobutu confidant named Colonel Alphonse Bangala purchased the island, Lometcha bought shares.

He had bought the wonderful beasts, greatly envied by all his neighbors.

Mrs. Hancock had given it her; but Mr. Hancock must have bought it.

Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.