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    ka·put
    /kəˈpo͝ot/

    adjective

    • 1. broken and useless; no longer working or effective: informal "the water pump's broken, kaput"

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  2. The meaning of KAPUT is utterly finished, defeated, or destroyed. How to use kaput in a sentence. Did you know?

  3. severely damaged, broken, or not working correctly: His credibility is kaput. (Definition of kaput from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of kaput. kaput. The port authority told me tonight that it will have to buy a new dredger; the old one is nearly kaput. From the. Hansard archive.

  4. 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."

  5. adjective. Informal. No longer effective, capable, or valuable: done, done for, finished, through, washed-up.

  6. Nov 7, 2024 · kaput (neuter kaput, plural and definite singular attributive kaput) broken, dysfunctional

  7. If you say that something is kaput, you mean that it is completely broken, useless, or finished.

  8. ruined; done for; demolished. unable to operate or continue: The washing machine is suddenly kaput. kaput. / kæˈpʊt / adjective. informal. postpositive ruined, broken, or not functioning.

  9. (slang) Out of order; not working; broken. My car is kaput. His career is kaput. Her marriage is kaput. Wiktionary. Synonyms: gone. done for. ruined. incapacitated. destroyed. broken. shot. over. wrecked. washed-up. through. finished. done. Origin of Kaput.

  10. kaput. adjective [ after verb ] informal us / kəˈpʊt / uk / kəˈpʊt / Add to word list Add to word list. not working correctly: The radio's kaput. Synonym. broken (DAMAGED) Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. broken The microwave's broken. dead The phone's dead; there must be a problem with the line. defunct The TV's defunct!

  11. Definition of kaput adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.