use up
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Verb
use up (third-person singular simple present uses up, present participle using up, simple past and past participle used up)
- (of a resource) To consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
- "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."
- 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
- 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.
- (of time or space) To take or occupy.
Translations
exhaust — see exhaust
to take or occupy
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