use up

verb

1. to finish (a supply); consume completely

2. to exhaust; wear out

Idioms and Phrases

Consume completely, as in The kids used up all their money playing video games . [Late 1700s]

Exhaust, tire out, as in I'm totally used up from digging that hole . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Solutions must involve not only phasing out fossil fuels, the scientists said, but also addressing the fact that people are using up resources faster than nature can replenish them.

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Meantime, private-label brands that make cheaper generics haven’t seen a corresponding increase, the company said last week, suggesting consumers are using up their inventory and making their existing stock last longer, rather than trading down.

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Beijing controls how much crude they can buy through annual quotas that have mostly been used up this year.

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In the deal, Anthropic will use up to a million TPU chips as well as additional Google Cloud services, it said late Thursday in a statement External link.

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But a royal source says that the actions taken showed that the Palace had acted "swiftly and robustly on new email evidence which emerged" and this approach had avoided using up valuable parliamentary time.

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Related Words

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• discharge 
• drain 
• drink 
• dump 
• escape 
• evacuate 
• exhaust 
• gut 
• leak 
• purge 
• run out 
• unload 
• vacate