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use up

use up verb: to consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.

Verb

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

  1. To consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.
    • "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."1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    • 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.2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    expend
  2. To take or occupy.

use up meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Nepali

use up in Tamil

செலவழி

use up in Malayalam

to use up; consume
ചെലവഴിക്കുക celavaḻikkuka
to use up, consume
ഉപയോഗിക്കുക upayōgikkuka

use up in Nepali

to use up, eat up
चुस्नु cusnu

Synonyms of use up

Forms of use up

third-person singular presentuses up
present participleusing up
past participleused up
pastused up

Questions about use up

What does use up mean?
Use up means to consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.
What is use up in Tamil?
Use up in Tamil is செலவழி. See Use up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is use up?
Use up is a verb.
What is the past tense of use up?
The past tense of use up is used up.

Words near use up in the dictionary

  1. use the restroom
  2. use the toilet
  3. use the user
  4. use the washroom
  5. use to
  6. use up
  7. use value
  8. use values
  9. use your words
  10. use-by date
  11. use-by dates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: use up (page history and authors); use up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഉപയോഗിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); चुस्नु (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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