Word:
Kaput(or kaputt)
Status:
Adjective
Meaning:
No longer working: no longer able to continue: completely ruined or defeated.
Sentences:
1) Once the Germans were forced to retreat from Stalingrad, the Nazi cause was kaput.
2) Hard-line Communism became kaput in Russia.
Origin:
From German kaputt, from French capot meaning 'not having made a trick'.
First use:
1895
Synonyms:
dead, done, doomed, finished, done for, ruined, sunk
Antonyms:
functional, functioning, operational, running, working.
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