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used

/juzd/ adjective A2
  1. That is or has or have been used. · The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers.
  2. That has or have previously been owned by someone else. · He bought a used car.
  3. In used to.
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At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 32 · B2
This room was my late master’s favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 276 · B2
I’ve always heard that Prince Edward Island was the prettiest place in the world, and I used to imagine I was living here, but I never really expected I would.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 19 · C1
They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 5 · B2

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