| 单词 | kaput |
| 释义 | kaput (once / 111503 pages) adj Something that's kaput is broken, dead, or worthless. When your old car is finally kaput, it's not even worth fixing. You can use the adjective kaput to describe things that have stopped working as well as those that are utterly destroyed: "After the war, the whole village was basically kaput." You might have a fight with a pal and feel like your friendship is kaput, or quit your job and say, "Well, my career as a grocery bagger is kaput." The word comes from the German kaputt, "destroyed or lost." WORD FAMILYkaput USAGE EXAMPLESWe all knew this would happen, but make no mistake about it: Bowls are kaput. Wall Street Journal(Nov 28, 2016) But you haven’t had the kind of wholesale kaput that you had in 2001 that scared everyone out of the water. Wall Street Journal(Oct 31, 2016) The suit, for the moment, is effectively kaput. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) adj destroyed or killed Syn done for, gone destroyed spoiled or ruined or demolished |
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