used
/juzd/ adjective A2- That is or has or have been used. · The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers.
- That has or have previously been owned by someone else. · He bought a used car.
- In used to.
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I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know.
I’ll try and say ‘_How doth the little_—’” and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:—
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
“I’m afraid I am, sir,” said Alice; “I can’t remember things as I used—and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!”
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