Redeemed vs Used - What's the difference?
redeemed | used |
(of a person) Granted redemption or salvation.
(of a coupon or offer) Spent; used in a purchase, and thus no longer usable.
(redeem)
(use)
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
(intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
That is or has or have been used.
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Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
As adjectives the difference between redeemed and used
is that redeemed is granted redemption or salvation while used is that is or has or have been used.As verbs the difference between redeemed and used
is that redeemed is past tense of redeem while used is past tense of use.redeemed
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Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* unredeemedVerb
(head)used
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Verb
(head)- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used .
- You used me!
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
Adjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.