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Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : juhngk
Phonetic Transcription : dʒʌŋk

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Définition of junked

Origin :
  • "worthless stuff," mid-14c., junke "old cable or rope" (nautical), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French junc "rush, reed," also used figuratively as a type of something of little value, from Latin iuncus "rush, reed" (but OED finds "no evidence of connexion"). Nautical use extended to "old refuse from boats and ships" (1842), then to "old or discarded articles of any kind" (1884). Junk food is from 1971; junk art is from 1966; junk mail first attested 1954.
  • As in discarded : adj rejected
  • As in wrecked : adj destroyed
  • As in jettison : verb eject; throw overboard
  • As in remove : verb lift or move object; take off, away
  • As in rid : verb do away with; free
  • As in scrap : verb abandon; throw away
  • As in shed : verb cast off
  • As in throw away : verb dispose of
  • As in chuck : verb throw aside, throw away, throw out
  • As in slough : verb shed
  • As in discard : verb get rid of
  • As in dispose of : verb throw away
  • As in ditch : verb get rid of
  • As in dump : verb drop, throw away
Example sentences :
  • If the battery has been frozen it should generally be junked.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • Positives which are rotted and disintegrated are, of course, hopeless, and must be junked.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • They may also be made of the good parts of batteries which are junked.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • Battery may have to be junked, or new separators may be required.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • His purpose would be suited if she were junked, so the young man realized.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • Harold was twiddling with some knobs mounted on the dashboard of the junked car.
  • Extract from : « First Man » by Clyde Brown
  • It was so thoroughly shot up that it was junked as being beyond repairs.
  • Extract from : « Flying for France » by James R. McConnell
  • Now I've gone and junked a yacht that'll cost me more than fifty times as much.
  • Extract from : « Jim Spurling, Fisherman » by Albert Walter Tolman

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