English

used

/juːzd/
In used to.

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

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    • inheritedMiddle Englishused
    • surface analysisEnglishuse “The act of using.”
    • suffixEnglish-ed “Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any pa…”
      • inheritedMiddle English-ed
        • inheritedOld English-ed
        • derivedLatincōnfūsus
        • inheritedOld English-od
      • inheritedMiddle English-ede
        • inheritedOld English-ode

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