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kaput

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ka·put also ka·putt  (kä-pt, -pt, k-)
adj. Informal
Incapacitated or destroyed.

[German kaputt, from French capot, not having won a single trick at piquet, possibly from Provençal.]

kaput [kæˈpʊt]
adj
(postpositive) Informal ruined, broken, or not functioning
[from German kaputt done for, from French être capot to have made no tricks (literally: to be hoodwinked), from capot hooded cloak]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.kaput - destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"

kaput
adjective (Informal) broken, finished, dead, destroyed, ruined, wrecked, undone, extinct, defunct, dead in the water (informal) His film career was kaput.
Translations
kaput [kəˈpʊt] ADJ
1. [object] → kaput
to be kaputestar kaput
2. [organization] now he's dead the whole company is kaputahora que ha fallecido, la empresa se ha ido al traste
kaput [kəˈpʊt] adjkapout inv, HS inv(= hors service)
to be kaput → être kapout, être HS
The washing machine seems to be kaput → La machine à laver a l'air kapout or HS.
kaput
adj (inf)kaputt (inf)
kaput [kəˈput] adj (fam) → kaputt inv
kaput [kəˈput] adj (fam) → kaputt inv


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Will American eyes, glued to their glaucousy TV screens to find out which celebrity marriage is kaput or who the starting quarterback will be on Sunday, ever know that another massacre of Palestinians took place?
If work by Marc Brown, Jerry Pinkney, Victoria Chess, Susan Meddaugh, Will Hillenbrand, and Joe Cepeda, along with the Dillons and Beatriz Vidal, can all be taken as African, the image of a monolithic Africa is, happily, kaput.
And, assuming the battery isn't kaput, both an automobile and marine battery charger will eventually charge the battery.
 
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