Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

use up

 
Idioms: use up


1.  Consume completely, as in The kids used up all their money playing video games. [Late 1700s]
2.  Exhaust, tire out, as in I'm totally used up from digging that hole. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]


Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
WordNet: use up
Top
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: use up, as of resources or materials
  Synonyms: consume, eat up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out

Meaning #2: as of time or space
  Synonyms: take, occupy


 
 
Learn More
blow
surfeit
exhaust

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.  Read more