- kaput ka·put adj
- [kə'put]
fam kaputt inv
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kaput ka·put adj
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kaput — ka|put [kəˈput] adj [not before noun] [Date: 1800 1900; : German; Origin: French capot having lost in a card game ] spoken broken ▪ The TV s gone kaput … Dictionary of contemporary English
kaput — ka•put [[t]kɑˈpʊt, ˈput, kə [/t]] adj. Slang. 1) sts ruined; done for; demolished 2) sts unable to operate or continue; broken: The TV went kaput[/ex] • Etymology: 1890–95; < G: orig. trickless (in game of piquet) < F (être) capot (to be)… … From formal English to slang
kaput — ka|put ubøj. adj. (SPØGENDE ødelagt, færdig) … Dansk ordbog
ka·put — /kəˈpʊt/ adj, not used before a noun informal 1 : no longer working Our washing machine is kaput. [=broken] Our washing machine was working perfectly, and then suddenly it went kaput. [=it broke] 2 : no longer able to continue : completely ruined … Useful english dictionary
ruined — adj 1. dilapidated, decrepit, in ruins, derelict, gone to wrack and ruin, the worse for wear, weather beaten, weather scarred, blasted; blighted, rotting, deteriorated, crumbling, falling down, going to pieces, Inf. tottering, nodding to its… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
dead — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. deceased, perished, defunct; lifeless, inanimate; obsolete, extinct. See death, nonexistence, insensibility.Ant., alive, living. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Without life] Syn. deceased, departed,… … English dictionary for students
head — [hed] n. [ME hede, heved < OE heafod, akin to Ger haupt (OHG houbit, Goth haubith) < IE base * kaput (orig. prob. cup shaped) > L caput: merged in Gmc with word akin to OHG hūba, a cap, crest (Ger haube) < IE base * keu , to bend,… … English World dictionary
