Word:
Kaput
Status:
Adjective
Meaning:
No longer working: no longer able to continue, completely ruined or defeated, hopelessly outmoded
Sentences:
1) Once the Germans were forced to retreat from Stalingard, the Nazi cause was kaput.
2) Hard-line Soviet style Communism became kaput in Russia.
Origin:
From French capot which means 'not having made a trick at piquet (card game)'.
First use:
1895
Synonyms:
dead, done, doomed, finished, ruined, sunk
Antonyms:
functional, functioning, operable, operant, operating, operational, operative, running, working
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