use up

verb

used up; using up; uses up

transitive verb

: to exhaust of strength or useful properties
land that has been used up

Examples of use up in a Sentence

we used up the last of the flour when we made the waffles
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Misa Arashi had already used up her one meeting to see her best friend. Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 VO2 max, which tests the maximum amount of oxygen used up during exercise, typically declines with age. Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 1 Oct. 2025 Some of the ‘headroom’ generated by Isak’s sale was already used up in advance on Woltemade and Wissa, though the way incoming and outgoing transfers are booked in the accounts means there is still lots of room for manoeuvre. Chris Waugh, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 In September 2024, Microsoft signed a 20-year agreement to restart a Three Mile Island reactor for 835 megawatts, while in May of this year, Amazon Web Services purchased a data center next to Pennsylvania's Susquehanna nuclear plant with plans to use up to 960 megawatts. Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for use up

Word History

First Known Use

1712, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of use up was in 1712

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“Use up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/use%20up. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

Kids Definition

use up

verb
: to make complete use of : exhaust
used up all the supplies

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