use up
Britishverb
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to finish (a supply); consume completely
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to exhaust; wear out
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Consume completely, as in The kids used up all their money playing video games . [Late 1700s]
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Exhaust, tire out, as in I'm totally used up from digging that hole . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
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In October, Anthropic said it plans to use up to 1 million of Google’s TPUs as it seeks to scale up computing — an issue also plaguing OpenAI as AI models become larger and more advanced.
From MarketWatch
“Don’t use up all your energy on Luma. Save some for her cousins.”
From Seattle Times
Besides, the whole point of panzanella originally was to use up stale bread, so it seems a shame to throw away any part of the loaf.
From Washington Times
Some offered recipes for the cabbage, which I couldn’t seem to use up.
From Washington Times
But he added that consumers are "slowly using up their cash buffers."
From Reuters
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