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adjective
- 1. broken and useless; no longer working or effective: informal "the water pump's broken, kaput"
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Kaput is an adjective that means utterly finished, defeated, or destroyed, or unable to function. It comes from German kaputt, which was influenced by French capot, a term for losing at piquet.
Kaput is an informal adjective that means not working correctly or severely damaged. Learn how to use it in sentences, see synonyms and translations, and compare it with related words.
If you say that something is kaput, you mean that it is completely broken, useless, or finished.
Kaput definition: ruined; done for; demolished.. See examples of KAPUT used in a sentence.
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."
Definition of kaput adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Kaput is an adjective that means ruined, destroyed, defeated, etc. It comes from German kaputt and has similar meanings in other languages.
