gastado

adj.

worn-out, used-up, worn-down, outworn.

past part.

past participle of spanish verb: gastar.

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gastado

► participio pasado

1→ {{link=gastar}}gastar

► adjetivo

1 (desgastado) worn-out

2 (acabado) finished, empty, used up

3 (manido) hackneyed, well-worn

■ ese tema está ya muy gastado that's a very well-worn topic

4 (abatido) worn-out, drained; (aviejado) old

5 (debilitado) weak, spent, finished

■ este gobierno ya está gastado this government is finished

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ADJ

1) (=desgastado) [ropa, neumático, superficie] worn

tenía el uniforme gastado y sucio — his uniform was worn and dirty

alfombras de lana muy gastadas — threadbare woollen rugs

las páginas del libro estaban muy gastadas por el uso — the pages of the book were well-thumbed

2) (=trillado) [metáfora] stale, hackneyed; [broma] old, stale

un político gastado — a washed-up politician *

3) [pilas] dead

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-da adjetivo <ropa/zapatos> worn-out; <político/cantante> washed-up (colloq)

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-da adjetivo <ropa/zapatos> worn-out; <político/cantante> washed-up (colloq)

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gastado¹

¹ = hackneyed, worn, shabby [shabbier -comp., shabbiest -sup.], well-worn, spent.

Ex: It is the order of words that helps us to distinguish between 'office post' and 'post office' or, to quote the hackneyed example, 'blind Venetian' and 'Venetian blind'.

Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.

Ex: Seventeenth-century English printing was abysmally poor, and there are few books that were not set in ill-cast, battered type, clumsily arranged and carelessly printed in brown ink on shabby paper.

Ex: He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.

Ex: If you repeatedly deadhead - trim off the spent flowers - the plant goes into overdrive.

* batería gastada = dud battery.

* gastado por el uso = worn-out.

* muy gastado = worn-out.

gastado²

² = committed.

Ex: The estimated cost on the original order record is then deducted from the committed expenditure.

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gastado -da

adjective

1 ‹ropa/zapatos› worn-out

los codos están muy gastados the elbows have worn very thin o are threadbare

2

(envejecido): sólo tiene 40 años pero está muy gastado he's only 40 but he looks much older

3 ‹político/deportista/cantante› washed-up (colloq), finished (colloq)

el gobierno ya está muy gastado the government has had its day

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Del verbo gastar: (conjugate gastar)

gastado es:

el participio

Multiple Entries:
gastado    
gastar
gastado

◊ -da adjetivo ‹ropa/zapatos› worn-out;

‹político/cantante› washed-up (colloq)
gastar (conjugate gastar) verbo transitivo
1 (consumir)

a) ‹dinero› to spend;

gastado algo en algo to spend sth on sth

b) ‹gasolina/electricidad› to use

2 (desperdiciar, malgastar) ‹dinero/tiempo/energía› to waste
3 (desgastar) ‹ropa/zapatos› to wear out;
‹tacones› to wear down
4 (fam) (llevar, usar) ‹ropa/gafas› to wear;

◊ gasto el 37 I'm a size 37

5 ‹broma› to play;

◊ le gastadoon una broma they played a joke o trick on him

gastarse verbo pronominal
1 (enf) ‹dinero› to spend
2 [pilas/batería] to run down;

◊ se me gastó la tinta I ran out of ink

3 [ropa/zapatos] (desgastarse) to wear out
4 (enf) (fam) (tener) to have;

◊ se gasta un genio … he has a terrible temper!

gastado,-a adjetivo
1 (usado, deteriorado) worn-out
2 fig (manido) hackneyed
gastar verbo transitivo
1 (dinero, tiempo) to spend
(gasolina, energía) to consume
2 (desperdiciar) to waste
3 (terminar) to use up
4 (emplear, usar) (ropa, gafas, zapatos) to wear: gasta papel de cartas azul, he uses blue writing paper
5 le gastaron una broma, they played a joke on him
♦ Locuciones: gastarlas, to behave, act: procura no llevarte mal con el jefe, que no sabes como las gasta, tread carefully with the boss until you find out what sort of person she is
'gastado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
gastada
- rozado
- usado
- ya
English:
go through
- low
- shabby
- spend
- spent
- tatty
- worn
- worn-out
- bald
- thread
- well

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gastado, -a adj

[objeto] worn out; [frase, tema] hackneyed; [persona] broken, burnt out; [pila] dead; [batería] flat

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gastado

adj worn out

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gastado, -da adj

1) : spent

2) : worn, worn-out

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gastado adj (ropa, zapatos, etc) worn out