- 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.
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.