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*used to someone or something

Fig. accustomed to someone or something; familiar and comfortable with someone or something. (*Typically: be ~; become ~; get~.) I am used to eating better food than this. I am used to the doctor I have and I don't want to change.

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I wished for nothing better; I used to tell them everything and hid nothing from them. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context We are getting used to tidy, noiseless waiters, who glide hither and thither, and hover about your back and your elbows like butterflies, quick to comprehend orders, quick to fill them; thankful for a gratuity without regard to the amount; and always polite--never otherwise than polite. The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context I used to love to drift along the pale-yellow cornfields, looking for the damp spots one sometimes found at their edges, where the smartweed soon turned a rich copper colour and the narrow brown leaves hung curled like cocoons about the swollen joints of the stem. My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context			urban legend urge urge along urge forward urge on urge to do use use a sledgehammer to crack a nut use as use as an excuse use before use by use every trick in the book use for use foul language use head Use loaf use over use some elbow grease use strong language use the bathroom use up use with use your head for more than a hatrack used used to used to do user friendly usher usher in usher into some place usher out of some place usher to usual utilize for vacation vaccinate vaccinate against vaccinate with vacillate between vacuum vacuum out vacuum up vague vain vale of tears valor value value above value as value at			used in kinetic models Used Lead Acid Batteries used loaf used loaf Used Lube Oil Used Machine Tool Network Used Machinery Network Locator used name used name used name used name Used oil Used oil Used oil Used Oil Analysis Used Oil and Solvents Used Oil Collection Center Used Oil Management Association Used Oil Management Standards Used Part Used Solvent Elimination Used Supplies with a Purpose Used textbook Used textbook Used textbook Used textbook Used textbooks Used textbooks Used textbooks Used textbooks used to Used To Be Used To Be Used To Be Used To Be used to do Used to Love Her Used Truck Association used up used up used up used up Used Vehicle Information Package Used Vehicle Measurement Standard Used Vehicles Importers Association Used With used with another thing Used, But in Good Condition used-car used-car lot Used-Fuel Packaging Plant Used-Vehicle Sales and Certification Study USEDA USEDC Usedom Usedom Peninsula USEE USEEP USEF USEFI useful

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