kaput in English

adjective

1

broken and useless; no longer working or effective.

Now, he told me, the ‘big way’ of thinking is finished, kaput .

synonyms: broken, malfunctioning, broken-down, inoperative, defunct, dead, conked out, on the fritz, done for

adjective

• broken, malfunctioning, broken-down, inoperative, defunct, dead, conked out, on the fritz, done for
• gone, done for

Use "kaput" in a sentence

1. The TV's gone kaput .

2. This battle must be kaput.

3. All three phones were kaput.

4. "What's happened to your car?"—-"It's kaput."

5. The car's kaput we'll have to walk.

6. He finally admitted that his film career was kaput.

7. That is because the mess has revealed a far deeper problem: their business model is kaput.

8. Synonyms for Buggered include all in, done in, exhausted, fucked, in for it, kaput, stuffed, spent, drained and weary

9. Corporal (n.) lowest noncommissioned army officer, 1570s, from French Corporal, from Italian caporale "a Corporal," from capo "chief, head," from Latin caput "head" (from PIE root *kaput-"head")

10. Capitation (n.) 1610s, "counting of heads," from Late Latin Capitationem (nominative capitatio) "the poll tax," noun of action from past participle stem of a verb derived from caput "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head")

11. Capsize (v.) "to turn over, overturn," 1780 (transitive); 1792 (intransitive), a nautical word of obscure origin, perhaps (as Skeat suggests) from Spanish capuzar "to sink by the head," from cabo "head," from Latin caput "head" (from PIE root *kaput-"head")

12. Captain (n.) late 14c., capitayn, "a leader, chief, one who stands at the head of others," from Old French capitaine "Captain, leader," from Late Latin capitaneus "chief," noun use of adjective capitaneus "prominent, chief," from Latin caput (genitive capitis) "head" (from PIE root *kaput-"head")

13. 1300, "head, leader, captain; the principal or most important part of anything;" from Old French Chief "leader, ruler, head" of something, "capital city" (10c., Modern French chef), from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput "head," also "leader, Chief person; summit; capital city" (from PIE root *kaput-"head")

14. In various senses in English in anatomy and biology, from Latin Capitulum, literally "little head," diminutive of caput "head," also "leader, guide, chief person; summit; capital city; origin, source, spring," figuratively "life, physical life;" in writing "a division, paragraph;" of money, "the principal sum," from PIE root *kaput-"head."