use up

verb

used up; using up; uses up

transitive verb

: to exhaust of strength or useful properties

land that has been used up

Synonyms of use up

• spend
• consume
• drain
• exhaust
• play out
• draw down
• run out of
• reduce
• use
• absorb
• burn

Examples of use up in a Sentence

we used up the last of the flour when we made the waffles

Recent Examples on the Web

In Homemade Trail Mix Trail mix is a great place to use up various shelf-stable snacks, including sunflower seeds. —Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2025

Anthropic, for instance, expanded its Google deal last month to use up to one million TPUs. —Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Nov. 2025

These grades are calculated using up to 30 national performance measures sourced from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Leapfrog Hospital Survey and other data. —Sacbee.com, 24 Nov. 2025

Instead of using up land on Earth to collect sunlight that won't be equally available in all parts of the world, would be drastically diminished by the atmosphere and weather, and not available at all at night, why not go for an alternative? —New Atlas, 20 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1712, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for use up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup

Kids Definition

use up

verb

: to make complete use of : exhaust

used up all the supplies