TO USE UP

Definition: TO USE UP

TO USE UP

1. (a) To consume or exhaust by using; to leave nothing of; as, to use up the supplies. (b) To exhaust; to tire out; to leave no capacity of force or use in; to overthrow; as, he was used up by fatigue. [Colloq.] Syn: Employ. Usage: Use , Employ . We use a thing, or make use of it, when we derive from it some enjoyment or service. We employ it when we turn that service into a particular channel. We use words to express our general meaning; we employ certain technical terms in reference to a given subject. To make use of, implies passivity in the thing; as, to make use of a pen; and hence there is often a material difference between the two words when applied to persons. To speak of ``making use of another'' generally implies a degrading idea, as if we had used him as a tool; while employ has no such sense. A confidential friend is employed to negotiate; an inferior agent is made use of on an intrigue. I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power Which thy discretion gives thee, to control And manage all. --Cowper. To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy. --Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO USE UP

Books

• The Other Half of the Egg: Or, 180 Ways to Use Up Extra Yolks or Whites (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Political Economy

SOUTH AFRICA

And further, as part of the government's commitment to African economic recovery, South African firms were granted the permission to use up to R750 million of local cash holdings for new approved foreign direct investment in Africa. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

盡 (exhausted, finished, to end, to exhaust, to finish, to the limit, to the utmost), 消耗 (to consume). (various references)

German

aufbrauchen (consume, deplete, drain, exhaust, to consume, use up). (various references)

Hungarian

fogyaszt (consume, to consume, to slim, to use), felhasznál (apply, expend, resort, to apply, to consume, to employ, to expend, to use, to utilize, trade in, use, use up, utilise, utilize), elhasznál (deplete, expend, outwear, to drain, to use, to wear out, use up, wear away), elfogyaszt (eat, had, have, to consume, to have, to ingest, to mop up, to waste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

使い果たす (to squander), 使い尽くす (to squander), 使い切る (to exhaust, to wear out), 出し切る (to do one's best). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つかいきる (to exhaust, to wear out), つかいつくす (to squander), つかいはたす (to squander), � しきる (to do one's best). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay eusay upay

consumere. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: estop, pesto, poets, pouts, setup, spout, stope, stoup, stupe, topes, touse, upset.

-3 letters: epos, opes, opts, opus, oust, outs, peso, pest, pets, poet, pose, post, pots, pout, puts, sept, soup, spot, spue, step, stop, suet, supe, toes, tope, tops, tups.

-4 letters: oes, ope, ops, opt, ose, out, pes, pet, pot, pus, put, set.

+2 letters: impetuous, outpushed, outpushes.

+3 letters: outpunches, stupendous, superscout.

+4 letters: impetuously, outproduces, superscouts, tempestuous, unsupported.

+5 letters: contemptuous, countercoups, multipurpose, neuropterous, outpopulates, percutaneous, presumptuous, seropurulent, stupendously, superconduct, superovulate, voluptuaries.

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