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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



... must have ridden straight to the place he used as his headquarters, where he had his wound roughly bandaged, changed his clothes, and had ridden in the morning to some point that the coach passed on its way to Southampton. Of course we obtained a minute description from the surgeon of the man's appearance. We found that the ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... But consider that before they know it, the newspapers will; so that, should it be needful, we shall have our own time to caution them. I need only say to Lucy's woman, 'A poor gentleman, a friend of the late squire, whom your mistress used to dance with, and you must have seen,—Captain Clifford,—is to be tried for his life. It will shock her, poor thing! in her present state of health, to tell her of so sad an event to her father's friend; therefore be silent, as you value ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... stay and talk here," said Merthyr. "And this is how I have found you. Do you suppose you have been hidden from us all this time? Perhaps you fancy you do not belong to your friends? Well, I spoke to all of your 'children,' as you used to call them. Do you remember? The day before yesterday two had seen you. You said to one, 'From Savoy or Piedmont?' He said, 'From Savoy;' and you shook your head: 'Not looking on Italy!' you said. This night I roused one of them, and he stretched his finger ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... Diarmid O'Donovan and he always wrote it in Irish characters, which used to puzzle me at first when I got into correspondence with him. We found him in a small room at the top of a house in a side street of a singularly ...
— The Red Hand of Ulster • George A. Birmingham
... stretching out his hand to her—usually when he met her after any absence he had used his hand to draw her nearer to him with more warmth than his present ordinary greeting showed—"Caroline, I have come down to have some talk with you. There is that between us which should ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope


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