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Definition of kaput in English: kaputadjective 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
OriginLate 19th century: from German kaputt, from French (être) capot '(be) without tricks in a card game'; compare with capot. Rhymesafoot, clubfoot, foot, hotfoot, put, soot, splay-foot, underfoot, wrong-foot, Yakut Definition of kaput in US English: kaputadjective 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
OriginLate 19th century: from German kaputt, from French (être) capot ‘(be) without tricks in a card game’; compare with capot. |