used: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of used
- caused«Word Popularity Bar5/5
cause
- noun events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
- they are trying to determine the cause of the crash
- noun a justification for something existing or happening
reason; grounds.
- he had no cause to complain
- they had good reason to rejoice
- noun events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
- refused5/5
refuse
- noun food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
scraps; food waste; garbage.
- verb show unwillingness towards
decline.
- he declined to join the group on a hike
- noun food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- focused5/5
focused
- adjective being in focus or brought into focus
focussed.
- verb direct one's attention on something
center; centre; pore; focus; concentrate; rivet.
- Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies
- adjective being in focus or brought into focus
- confused5/5
confused
- adjective satellite perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
baffled; bewildered; bemused; lost; confounded; befuddled; at sea; mazed; mixed-up.
- obviously bemused by his questions
- bewildered and confused
- a cloudy and confounded philosopher
- just a mixed-up kid
- she felt lost on the first day of school
- verb mistake one thing for another
confound; confuse.
- you are confusing me with the other candidate
- I mistook her for the secretary
- adjective satellite perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- paused5/5
pause
- noun a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
intermission; break; suspension; interruption.
- noun temporary inactivity
- noun a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- accused5/5
accused
- noun a defendant in a criminal proceeding
- verb bring an accusation against; level a charge against
incriminate; impeach; accuse; criminate.
- The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse
- noun a defendant in a criminal proceeding
- abused4/5
abused
- adjective satellite used improperly or excessively especially drugs
- an abused substance
- verb treat badly
ill-use; ill-treat; maltreat; step; abuse; mistreat.
- This boss abuses his workers
- She is always stepping on others to get ahead
- adjective satellite used improperly or excessively especially drugs
- aroused4/5
aroused
- adjective satellite aroused to action
- the aroused opposition
- verb call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
raise; fire; enkindle; elicit; arouse; evoke; kindle; provoke.
- arouse pity
- raise a smile
- evoke sympathy
- adjective satellite aroused to action
- amused4/5
amused
- adjective satellite pleasantly occupied
diverted; entertained.
- We are not amused" -Queen Victoria
- verb occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
disport; amuse; divert.
- The play amused the ladies
- adjective satellite pleasantly occupied
- unused4/5
unused
- adjective satellite not yet used or soiled
fresh.
- a fresh shirt
- a fresh sheet of paper
- an unused envelope
- adjective satellite not yet put into use
- we bought an unused car for a change
- adjective satellite not yet used or soiled
- excused4/5
excused
- adjective satellite granted exemption
- one of the excused jurors planned to write a book
- verb accept an excuse for
excuse; pardon.
- Please excuse my dirty hands
- adjective satellite granted exemption
- roused4/5
rouse
- verb become active
bestir.
- He finally bestirred himself
- verb force or drive out
force out; rout out; drive out.
- The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.
- verb become active
- diffused4/5
diffused
- adjective satellite (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material
- diffused light
- verb move outward
fan out; spread; diffuse; spread out.
- The soldiers fanned out
- adjective satellite (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material
- espoused4/5
espouse
- verb choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
follow; adopt.
- She followed the feminist movement
- The candidate espouses Republican ideals
- verb take in marriage
get hitched with; wed; marry; conjoin; get married; hook up with.
- verb choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- housed4/5
house
- noun a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- he has a house on Cape Cod
- she felt she had to get out of the house
- noun the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
firm; business firm.
- he worked for a brokerage house
- noun a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- fused4/5
fused
- adjective satellite joined together into a whole
amalgamate; amalgamated; coalesced; consolidated.
- United Industries
- the amalgamated colleges constituted a university
- a consolidated school
- verb mix together different elements
mix; conflate; immix; coalesce; commingle; flux; fuse; combine; merge; blend; meld.
- The colors blend well
- adjective satellite joined together into a whole
- infused4/5
infuse
- verb teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
inculcate; instill.
- inculcate values into the young generation
- verb fill, as with a certain quality
impregnate; tincture; instill.
- The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide
- verb teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
- mused4/5
muse
- noun in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
- noun the source of an artist's inspiration
- Euterpe was his muse
- noun in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
- reused3/5
reuse
- verb use again after processing
recycle; reprocess.
- We must recycle the cardboard boxes
- verb use again after processing
- misused3/5
misused
- adjective used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose
- misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents
- verb apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly
misuse; misapply.
- The words are misapplied in this context
- You are misapplying the name of this religious group
- adjective used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose
- suffused3/5
suffuse
- verb cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
perfuse.
- The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
- verb to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
- His whole frame suffused with a cold dew
- verb cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
- enthused3/5
enthuse
- verb cause to feel enthusiasm
- verb utter with enthusiasm
- verb cause to feel enthusiasm
- bemused3/5
bemused
- adjective satellite deeply absorbed in thought
deep in thought; preoccupied; lost.
- as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class
- lost in thought
- a preoccupied frown
- verb cause to be confused emotionally
bemuse; throw; bewilder; discombobulate.
- adjective satellite deeply absorbed in thought
- unfocused3/5
unfocused
- adjective (of an image) not being in or brought into focus
unfocussed.
- at their edges things were pretty much out of focus
- adjective satellite not concentrated at one point or upon one objective
unfocussed.
- diversity...in our huge unfocused country"- Owen Wister
- adjective (of an image) not being in or brought into focus
- overused2/5
overuse
- noun exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
overutilization; overexploitation; overutilisation.
- verb make use of too often or too extensively
overdrive.
- noun exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
- disused2/5
disused
- adjective satellite no longer in use
obsolete.
- obsolete words
- adjective satellite no longer in use
- soused2/5
soused
- adjective satellite very drunk
pixilated; sozzled; soaked; tight; sloshed; slopped; blotto; plastered; crocked; besotted; cockeyed; squiffy; wet; pie-eyed; fuddled; smashed; blind drunk; stiff; loaded; pissed.
- verb cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
drench; souse; soak; sop; douse; dowse.
- souse water on his hot face
- adjective satellite very drunk
- calloused2/5
calloused
- adjective satellite having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
thickened; callous.
- calloused skin
- with a workman's callous hands
- verb make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
cauterise; callous; cauterize.
- adjective satellite having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
- chorused2/5
chorus
- noun any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- a chorus of boos
- noun a group of people assembled to sing together
- noun any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- doused2/5
douse
- verb put out, as of a candle or a light
put out.
- Douse the lights
- verb wet thoroughly
dowse.
- verb put out, as of a candle or a light
- refocused2/5
refocus
- verb focus once again; The physicist refocused the light beam"
- verb focus anew
- The group needs to refocus its goals
- verb focus once again; The physicist refocused the light beam"
- transfused2/5
transfuse
- verb impart gradually
instill.
- Her presence instilled faith into the children
- transfuse love of music into the students
- verb pour out of one vessel into another
- verb impart gradually
- defused2/5
defuse
- verb remove the triggering device from
- verb remove the triggering device from
- groused2/5
grouse
- noun flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil
- noun popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
- noun flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil
- uncaused2/5
uncaused
- adjective satellite having no cause or apparent cause
causeless; fortuitous.
- a causeless miracle
- fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune
- we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times
- adjective satellite having no cause or apparent cause
- disabused2/5
disabused
- adjective satellite freed of a mistaken or misguided notion
undeceived.
- some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth
- verb free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
disabuse.
- adjective satellite freed of a mistaken or misguided notion
- rendezvoused2/5
rendezvous
- noun a meeting planned at a certain time and place
- noun a place where people meet
- he was waiting for them at the rendezvous
- noun a meeting planned at a certain time and place
- perused2/5
peruse
- verb examine or consider with attention and in detail
- Please peruse this report at your leisure
- verb examine or consider with attention and in detail
- callused2/5
callus
- noun an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
callosity.
- noun bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone
- noun an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
- bused2/5
bus
- noun a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
coach; omnibus; motorbus; motorcoach; passenger vehicle; charabanc; jitney; autobus; double-decker.
- he always rode the bus to work
- noun the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar
bus topology.
- noun a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
- warehoused2/5
warehouse
- noun a storehouse for goods and merchandise
storage warehouse.
- verb store in a warehouse
- noun a storehouse for goods and merchandise
- perfused2/5
perfuse
- verb force a fluid through (a body part or tissue)
- perfuse a liver with a salt solution
- verb cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
suffuse.
- The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
- verb force a fluid through (a body part or tissue)
- underused2/5
underused
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- unfused2/5
- caroused1/5
carouse
- noun revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
carousal; toot; bender; booze-up.
- verb engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
riot; roister.
- They were out carousing last night
- noun revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
- recused1/5
recuse
- verb disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case
- verb challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
- verb disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case
- nonplused1/5
nonplused
- adjective satellite filled with bewilderment
at a loss; nonplussed; puzzled.
- at a loss to understand those remarks
- puzzled that she left without saying goodbye
- verb be a mystery or bewildering to
mystify; perplex; bewilder; get; beat; puzzle; pose; amaze; vex; baffle; flummox; stick; stupefy; gravel; nonplus; dumbfound.
- This beats me!
- Got me--I don't know the answer!
- a vexing problem
- This question really stuck me
- adjective satellite filled with bewilderment
- moused1/5
mouse
- noun any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
- noun a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
black eye; shiner.
- noun any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
- caucused1/5
caucus
- noun a closed political meeting
- verb meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
- noun a closed political meeting
- effused1/5
effuse
- verb pour out
pour out.
- effused brine
- verb flow or spill forth
flow out.
- verb pour out
- deloused1/5
delouse
- verb free of lice
- They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps
- verb free of lice
- censused1/5
census
- noun a periodic count of the population
nose count; nosecount.
- verb conduct a census
- They censused the deer in the forest
- noun a periodic count of the population
- contused1/5
contuse
- verb injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
bruise.
- I bruised my knee
- verb injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
- rehoused1/5
rehouse
- verb put up in a new or different housing
- verb put up in a new or different housing
- unexcused1/5
unexcused
- adjective satellite not excused
- too many unexcused absences
- adjective satellite not excused
- unconfused1/5
unconfused
- adjective satellite not perplexed by conflicting situations or statements
unbaffled.
- adjective satellite not perplexed by conflicting situations or statements
- defocused1/5
- interfused1/5
interfuse
To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter. The ambient air, wide interfused, Embracing round this florid earth. Milton.
- unamused1/5
unamused
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- unhoused1/5
unhoused
Properly p. p. of unhouse .Driven from a house; deprived of shelter.
- reinfused1/5
reinfused
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- bloused1/5
blouse
- noun a top worn by women
- noun a top worn by women
- unaroused1/5
- superfused1/5
superfuse
To pour (something) over or on something else. Obs. Evelyn.
- loused1/5
louse
- noun wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
sucking louse.
- noun a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
dirt ball; insect; worm.
- noun wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
- overaroused1/5
- overfocused1/5
Derived words of used
- confusedly«Word Popularity Bar2/5
confusedly
- adverb in a confused manner
- Queen Augusta wrote him an hysterical letter in which she confusedly sympathised with him
- adverb in a confused manner
- housedress1/5
housedress
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- amusedly1/5
amused
- adjective satellite pleasantly occupied
diverted; entertained.
- We are not amused" -Queen Victoria
- verb occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
disport; amuse; divert.
- The play amused the ladies
- adjective satellite pleasantly occupied
- bemusedly1/5
bemused
- adjective satellite deeply absorbed in thought
deep in thought; preoccupied; lost.
- as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class
- lost in thought
- a preoccupied frown
- verb cause to be confused emotionally
bemuse; throw; bewilder; discombobulate.
- adjective satellite deeply absorbed in thought
- housedresses1/5
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `used`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.
While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `used`, some are not.
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