How do you pronounce used?

The recorded pronunciation is /juzd/.

Where does used come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

used

/juzd/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.80 in modern English

Syllables: used
IPA: /juzd/

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Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of use

verb

In used to.

adj

That is or has or have been used.

adj

That has or have previously been owned by someone else.

adj

In used to.

Example Sentences

"You used me! You never loved me at all!"
"In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used."
"The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers."
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
"He bought a used car."

Etymology

From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: used

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /juzd/
British English: /juːzd/

Inflected Forms

more used (comparative) most used (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonused overused usedness

Phrases

getting used to get used ill-used oft-used old time used to be postally used used bookstore used-to-be

Frequently Paired Words

abused ill-used misused screen-used used up

Synonyms

pre-owned second-hand secondhand exploited ill-used put-upon victimized victimised

Antonyms

unused new

Rhymes With

refused confused accused abused unused amused fused bruised infused excused reused misused