EGAVE

used to

About 217.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of.
    I am very used to cleaning up other people’s mess.
  2. verb Formerly and habitually or repeatedly, but possibly no longer, did.
    You never used to like soap operas, did you? I used to like that band long ago, and I was surprised I still do. I used to know a guy from the UK who pronounced "mother" with the "r". It used to be me who ran the company. There used to be open fields here. Now it's a shopping mall.

Similar words

accustomed wont to acculturated wont used accustomable acclimated hardened cool tolerant

Word family

got used to

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