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Used

adjective

1.

Employed in accomplishing something.

2.

Of persons; taken advantage of. Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, victimised, victimized.

3.

Previously used or owned by another. Synonym: secondhand.

Use

verb

(past & past part. used; pres. part. using)

1.

Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose. Synonyms: apply, employ, utilise, utilize. "We only use Spanish at home" , "I can't use this tool" , "Apply a magnetic field here" , "This thinking was applied to many projects" , "How do you utilize this tool?" , "I apply this rule to get good results" , "Use the plastic bags to store the food" , "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

2.

Take or consume (regularly or habitually). Synonym: habituate.

3.

Use up, consume fully. Synonym: expend.

4.

Seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage. "The president's wife used her good connections"

5.

Avail oneself to. Synonyms: apply, practice. "Practice a religion" , "Use care when going down the stairs" , "Use your common sense" , "Practice non-violent resistance"

6.

Habitually do something (use only in the past tense). "I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall" , "They used to vacation in the Bahamas"

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"Used" Quotes from Famous Books

... month after that sad scene that I went over to see old Brownsmith. I was very young, but my life with my invalid mother had, I suppose, made me thoughtful; and though I used to sit a great deal at the window I felt as if I had not the heart to go into the great garden, where every path and bed would seem to bring up one of the days when somebody used to be sitting there, watching the flowers and ...

— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn

... said Prosper, bitterly. "Yes, that was the word you used the day you banished me from your presence. A sister! Then why during three years did you delude me with vain hopes? Was I a brother to you the day we went to Notre Dame de Fourvieres, that day when, at the foot of the altar, we swore to love each other ...

— File No. 113 • Emile Gaboriau

... are you doing here?" cried Raven with a string of oaths, flinging a buffalo robe over the kegs. "My word! You startled me," he added with a short laugh. "I haven't got used to you yet. All right, Little Thunder, get these boxes together. Bring that grey cayuse here, Cameron, the one with the ...

— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor

... into two compartments by a double wire-screen partition, which effectually prevented mosquitoes on one side from passing to the other; of course there were no mosquitoes there to begin with, as the section of the building used for breeding and keeping them was entirely separated from the other, and there could be ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... all count at least up to five. This, nevertheless, did not apply to representations of footmarks, both human and animal—which were reproduced with admirable fidelity, I think because the actual footprints on the rock itself had been used as a guide before the carving had been made. I saw the representation of a human footmark, the left, with five toes, and the shape of the foot correctly drawn. Evidently the artist or a friend had stood on his right foot while applying the left to the side of the rock. When they attempted to ...

— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

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