use up

English

Verb

use up (third-person singular simple present uses up, present participle using up, simple past and past participle used up)

1. (of a resource) To consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."

   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.

2. (of time or space) To take or occupy.

Translations

exhaust — see exhaust

to take or occupy

• Finnish: viedä (fi)
• Navajo: yibadooghááh
• Russian: занима́ть (ru) impf (zanimátʹ), заня́ть (ru) pf (zanjátʹ)

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• Esperanto: foruzi
• Portuguese: (do recurso) consumir, dilapidar ou exaurir completamente, (do tempo ou espaço) tomar ou ocupar completamente
• Turkish: yoğaltmak (tr)