Definitions for used

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used used

Spelling: [yoozd or for 4, yoost]

IPA: /yuzd or for 4, yust/

Used is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in used (desu).

Definitions for used

noun

1. the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
2. the state of being employed or used.
3. an instance or way of employing or using something:
4. a way of being employed or used; a purpose for which something is used:
5. the power, right, or privilege of employing or using something:
6. service or advantage in or for being employed or used; utility or usefulness:
7. help; profit; resulting good:
8. occasion or need, as for something to be employed or used:
9. continued, habitual, or customary employment or practice; custom:
10. Law. the enjoyment of property, as by the employment, occupation, or exercise of it. the benefit or profit of lands and tenements in the possession of another who simply holds them for the beneficiary. the equitable ownership of land to which the legal title is in another's name.
11. Liturgy. the distinctive form of ritual or of any liturgical observance used in a particular church, diocese, community, etc.
12. usual or customary experience.

Idioms

1. used to, accustomed or habituated to:
2. have no use for, to have no occasion or need for: to refuse to tolerate; discount: to have a distaste for; dislike:
3. make use of, to use for one's own purposes; employ:
4. of no use, of no advantage or help: Also, no use.
5. put to use, to apply; employ to advantage:

adjective

1. previously used or owned; secondhand:
2. showing wear or being worn out:
3. employed for a purpose; utilized:

Verb phrases

1. use up, to consume entirely. to exhaust of vigor or usefulness; finish:

verb (used with object)

1. to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of:
2. to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes:
3. to expend or consume in use:
4. to treat or behave toward:
5. to take unfair advantage of; exploit:
6. to drink, smoke, or ingest habitually:
7. to habituate or accustom.
8. Archaic. to practice habitually or customarily; make a practice of.

verb (used without object)

1. to be accustomed or customarily found (used with an infinitive expressed or understood, and, except in archaic use, now only in the past):
2. Archaic. to resort, stay, or dwell customarily.

Origin of used

Middle English word dating back to 1325-75; See origin at use, -ed²

Examples for used

It upsets me because I used to really, and still do sometimes, love the articles Salon writes.

It used to carry livestock but sailed its final voyage with a hold full of Syrian men, women, and children.

I spoke to Philothea just as I used to do; without remembering that she had died.

Of course they did not use the letters which have been used to print this book.

They just reflect the range of breeds that were used to create the Heck cattle in the first instance.

But he was making real love, and you know I'm not used to that.

You used to support your family comfortably when you had one.

That strategy has been used in some cases to help determine GMO policy.

The best doctrines become the worst, when they are used for evil purposes.

Almost everyone I spoke to said they have used JSwipe because they are specifically not just looking for a booty call.