used
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- v put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- v take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- v use up, consume fully
- v seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage
The president's wife used her good connections - v avail oneself to
- v habitually do something (use only in the past tense)
She used to call her mother every week but now she calls only occasionally
I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall
They used to vacation in the Bahamas - a employed in accomplishing something
the principle of surprise is the most used and misused of all the principles of war"- H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker - s of persons; taken advantage of
after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used - s previously used or owned by another
bought a secondhand (or used) car
- Impressed by the material's load-bearing capacity (he calls cardboard "improved wood"), he thought of them again in 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, and used donated 34-ply tubes .
- TV shows with transsexual charactersusually used as sassy, obnoxious sidekickswere told to get rid of the parts.
- Revolvers, not generally used as an offensive weapon, had a median time-to-crime of 12.