kaput
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During that winter, the farmhouse's cellar flooded, the pipes froze and "the tractor just decided to go kaput".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
So as the season begins, The Bear is long on stress, short on food, the plumbing is kaput, the reservation line has stopped working and then started again and the place is impossibly overbooked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Gawker was revived, and then went kaput again; Gawker.com is currently devoid of articles.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2024
When it was over, his excuse for hanging out with her would be kaput.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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