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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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... beating pulse that I entered the familiar little private office, thinking that Ned might be on the other side of the partition—near enough, perhaps, to hear me; that he might at any moment rap upon the door and enter the room as he used to do, upon such flimsy errands! I wondered how he would look, and what he'd say if he came; but he never did come, though the talk was long enough, mercy knows; long ...

— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... a strong similarity to Scotch and Irish songs, owing to the absence of the fourth and seventh degrees of the scale. If they were really sung to the accompaniment of chords, the resemblance would be very striking. The Chinese singing voice, however, is not sonorous, the quality commonly used being a kind of high, nasal whine, very far removed from what we call music. The accompaniment of the songs is of a character most discordant to European ears, consisting as it does mainly of constant drum or gong beats interspersed with the shrill notes of the kin, the principal Chinese ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... missionary more particularly a comparative study of the religions of mankind will be, I believe, of the greatest assistance. Missionaries are apt to look upon all other religions as something totally distinct from their own, as formerly they used to describe the languages of barbarous nations as something more like the twittering of birds than the articulate speech of men. The Science of Language has taught us that there is order and wisdom in all languages, and that even the most degraded jargons contain the ruins of ...

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... body, to scrub the region in question with especial thoroughness. Before the bath an enema of soap-suds should be taken to clear the rectum of material which otherwise might be expelled during the birth and contaminate the field of delivery. The bath-towels and the gown which are used should ...

— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons

... power by the president is fraught with danger, however. Unless surrounded by proper checks, it might be used to overturn our system of government. But the president can hardly, as now situated, misuse this power. In the first place, the general rules for the management and government of the army are made by congress. ...

— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary

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