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单词 kaput
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Definition of kaput in English:

kaput

adjective kəˈpʊt
informal
  • predicative Broken and useless; no longer working or effective.

    〈非正式〉坏掉的,无用的;不再是可操作(或经营)的;失去效用的

    the water pump's broken, kaput
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this case, Tino of all people is the loser: for he has once again been suckered into coming into Panera only to find that the network is kaput.
    • If, on the other hand, the developer's trade association challenges the regulation in the D.C. Circuit, and wins, the regulation is kaput nationwide.
    • This means, obviously, the resolution is kaput, and the United States has no reason to wait until March 17.
    • She also loves the air circulated by the fan and within a minute of the fan being switched off, either by the maid to clean the room or if the electricity goes kaput, she puckers her mouth and begins to cry!
    • So many people are willing to pay $2000 for this thing that the company's website was kaput for most of yesterday.
    • It's probably just coincidence that it went kaput shortly after being plugged into a PC for the first time, which I don't think it was too happy about.
    • But that's ok as I had to drop my computer off to be fixed, the internal modem is kaput, and I'll be without it during my busiest time since being here.
    • Now, he told me, the ‘big way’ of thinking is finished, kaput.
    • Your two front tyres are kaput, they'll need replacing.
    • Somewhere on the expressway the engine went kaput.
    • The air conditioning's kaput and it's like a furnace.
    • I was just about done, finished, kaput, when I saw the sign up ahead.
    • I got involved in a business venture that went kaput.
    • ‘The prices are just so different, the systems are so different, everything is going to go kaput,’ he added.
    • If you had a car and it made a terrible rattle you'd have it checked out immediately instead of waiting to for it to go kaput, the same principle applies to marriage.
    • The video went kaput early on and its rewind button hadn't worked to begin with.
    • He had just interviewed the Prime Minister and had come away from Number 10 Downing Street convinced that the Labour leader was just about kaput politically.
    • This time the bad news is that our dishwasher is kaput.
    • Well, my conspiracy was pretty much dead, kaput, nada.
    • According to The San Francisco Chronicle, his game has been kaput for the whole season - and he's fallen to 24th in the rankings - as a direct result of his club trouble.
    Synonyms
    smashed, shattered, burst, fragmented, splintered, shivered, crushed, snapped, rent, torn, ruptured, separated, severed, in bits, in pieces
    broken, malfunctioning, broken-down, inoperative

Origin

Late 19th century: from German kaputt, from French (être) capot '(be) without tricks in a card game'; compare with capot.

  • This word meaning ‘no longer working’ comes from German kaputt, from French (être) capot ‘(be) without tricks in the card game of piquet’.

Rhymes

afoot, clubfoot, foot, hotfoot, put, soot, splay-foot, underfoot, wrong-foot, Yakut

Definition of kaput in US English:

kaput

adjective
informal
  • predicative Broken and useless; no longer working or effective.

    〈非正式〉坏掉的,无用的;不再是可操作(或经营)的;失去效用的

    the water pump's broken, kaput
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If, on the other hand, the developer's trade association challenges the regulation in the D.C. Circuit, and wins, the regulation is kaput nationwide.
    • According to The San Francisco Chronicle, his game has been kaput for the whole season - and he's fallen to 24th in the rankings - as a direct result of his club trouble.
    • She also loves the air circulated by the fan and within a minute of the fan being switched off, either by the maid to clean the room or if the electricity goes kaput, she puckers her mouth and begins to cry!
    • He had just interviewed the Prime Minister and had come away from Number 10 Downing Street convinced that the Labour leader was just about kaput politically.
    • This time the bad news is that our dishwasher is kaput.
    • Somewhere on the expressway the engine went kaput.
    • I got involved in a business venture that went kaput.
    • In this case, Tino of all people is the loser: for he has once again been suckered into coming into Panera only to find that the network is kaput.
    • The air conditioning's kaput and it's like a furnace.
    • This means, obviously, the resolution is kaput, and the United States has no reason to wait until March 17.
    • The video went kaput early on and its rewind button hadn't worked to begin with.
    • Now, he told me, the ‘big way’ of thinking is finished, kaput.
    • I was just about done, finished, kaput, when I saw the sign up ahead.
    • Well, my conspiracy was pretty much dead, kaput, nada.
    • Your two front tyres are kaput, they'll need replacing.
    • So many people are willing to pay $2000 for this thing that the company's website was kaput for most of yesterday.
    • But that's ok as I had to drop my computer off to be fixed, the internal modem is kaput, and I'll be without it during my busiest time since being here.
    • ‘The prices are just so different, the systems are so different, everything is going to go kaput,’ he added.
    • If you had a car and it made a terrible rattle you'd have it checked out immediately instead of waiting to for it to go kaput, the same principle applies to marriage.
    • It's probably just coincidence that it went kaput shortly after being plugged into a PC for the first time, which I don't think it was too happy about.
    Synonyms
    smashed, shattered, burst, fragmented, splintered, shivered, crushed, snapped, rent, torn, ruptured, separated, severed, in bits, in pieces
    broken, malfunctioning, broken-down, inoperative

Origin

Late 19th century: from German kaputt, from French (être) capot ‘(be) without tricks in a card game’; compare with capot.

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