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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But with the herd producing up to 6,000 gallons of slurry a day, any breathing space can be quickly used up.
From BBC
Or when utility bills skyrocket because data centers use up enormous energy.
Under Tuesday’s agreement, Meta will buy enough of AMD’s latest chips, known as the MI450 series, to power data centers using up to 6 gigawatts of computing power over the next five years.
If the U.S. uses up large amounts of air-defense munitions and other items that are in limited supply, it could also impact preparations for a possible future conflict with China.
"When patients arrive in a neurology clinic they have used up their internal reserve capacity, so the progression of weakness is often rapid."
From BBC
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