hadverb
ukstrong /hæd/weak /həd//əd/usstrong /hæd/weak /həd//əd/had verb (HAVE)
also 'd past simple and past participle of have , also used with the past participle of other verbs to form the past perfect:
When I was a child I had a dog.
No more food please - I've had enough.
I had heard/I'd heard they were planning to move to Boston.
formal Had I known (= if I had known), I would have come home sooner.
had verb (FINISHED)
have had it informal
(of a machine, etc.) to be in such a bad condition that it is not useful or (of a person, team, etc.) to be doing so badly that they are certain to fail:
I think this computer's had it.
Liverpool have had it for this season.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- act
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- disable
- fritz
- give up the ghost idiom
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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Idiom(s)
had better/best do sth
have had it (up to here) with
hadadjective
uk/hæd/us/hæd/be had informal
to be tricked and given less than you agreed or paid for:
"I paid £2,000 for this car." "You've been had, mate. It's not worth more than £1,000 ."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
- worm
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