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Definition: Used Up |
Used UpAdjective1. Completely used up. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Used Up Worn out, tired out, utterly fatigued, or exhausted. Used up alludes to articles used up. Worn out alludes to dresses and articles worn out by use. Exhausted alludes to wells, water, etc., dried up. Tired out means tired utterly. "Being out night after night, she got kinder used up."- Sam Slick: Human Nature, p. 192. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | USED UP. Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedition at Carthagena, where he desired the commander in chief to order him some more grenadiers, for those he had were all used up. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Used UpSynonyms: consumed (adj), used up(p) (adj), used-up(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless). |
Fatigue | Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored. |
Satiety | Adjective: satiated; Verb: overgorged; blase, used up, sick of, heartsick. |
Weariness | Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Used Up |
| English words defined with "used up": burnup ♦ charge account credit, consumable, consumed ♦ Done for ♦ essential, exhaustible ♦ Foreworn ♦ inexhaustible ♦ left, left over, leftover ♦ odd, open-end credit ♦ refilling, remaining, renewal, replacement, replenishment, revolving credit, run out ♦ To use up ♦ uneaten, unexhausted, unexpended, unlimited, up, used-up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "used up": Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ♦ durable consumer goods ♦ evolved star ♦ gear ratio ♦ non-renewable resource. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All the great themes have been used up and turned into theme parks. (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle) You used up all the glue on purpose! (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. (Firefly; writing credit: Michael Mates) One woman used up only 3 minutes, and another used three 2-hour tapes. (Sex, Lies, and Videotape; writing credit: Steven Soderbergh) | |
Lyrics | Twisted and used up (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town) You've used up all your coupons (Underneath It All; performing artist: No Doubt) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Figure 13. Negretti and Zambra thermometer, 1878 model. This instrument is the direct ancestor of most reversing thermometers used up to this time. This was the first instrument to break the column of mercury after reversing to obtain the reading. It was entirely enclosed in a double envelope of glass to eliminate pressure effects. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A man is used up by forty. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | If we refused, or rather used up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "used up": be used up. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "used up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | uitgeput (exhausted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lodhur (all in, aweary, bored, disgusted, fatigued, flagging, forworn, jaded, languorous, rundown, sick, tired, way-worn, weary, worn out), i diskutuar plotësisht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | изчерпан (effete, out of print, played out), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, weary, whacked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opotřebovaný (worn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | realkapitalforbruget repraesenterer den vaerdiforringelse,som realkapitalen i loebet af den paagaeldende periode undergaar som foelge af normalt slid og forudseelig foraeldelse,herunder en henlaeggelse til tab af realkapitalgoder som foelge af skadestilfa (as a result of normal wear and tear and foreseeable obsolescence, consumption of fixed capital represents the amount of fixed capital used up, during the period under consideration, including a provision for losses of fixed capital goods as a result of accidental damage which can be insured against). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitverkocht (exhausted), uitgeput (exhausted), verbruikt, opgemaakt, op (above, according as, according to, as, at, by, exhausted, for, from, in, inside, into, on, out of, owing to, per, spent, through, to, toward, towards, up, uphill, upon, upwards, within, worn, write down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | foruzita, elĉerpita (exhausted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kulua (be used up, be worn, elapse, go by, pass, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | la consommation de capital fixe représente la dépréciation,subie au cours de la période considérée,par le capital fixe par suite d'usure normale et d'obsolescence prévisible,y compris une provision pour pertes de biens de capital fixe la suite d (consumption of fixed capital represents the amount of fixed capital used up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verfeürte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οι αποσβέσεις πάγιου κεφαλαίου αντιπροσωπεύουν το ποσό του πάγιου κεφαλαίου που αναλώθηκε,κατά τη διάρκεια της εξεταζόμενης περιόδου,ως α (consumption of fixed capital represents the amount of fixed capital used up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לאזול (be exhausted, be used up, cease, give out, run out, run short). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagyon kimerült (to feel used up), nagyon (badly, bally, bloody, covetous, ever so much, exceedingly, greatly, have one's nerves on edge, heavily, highly, immensely, jolly, jolly well, like hell, like mad, mightily, most, much, much to be desired, passing, pretty, quite, real, right, severely, sorely, thundering, to be broke for sg, to be down with a cold, to be in a fine way about sg, to be rejoiced at sg, to be rejoiced by sg, to feel used up, to get to look very slack, to take pains to do sg, to think the world of sy, to want sg badly, too, very, very much, very much indeed, wondrous), kivan (cooked, to be all in, to be done, to be done to the world, to be down, to be fagged out, to be knocked up, to be maxed out, to be played out, to feel used up), kimerültnek érzi magát (to feel used up), holtfáradt (dead beat, dead tired, deadbeat, dead-beat, dog tired, jaded, over-tired, ready to drop, tired to the world, to feel used up, washed out), elcsigázott (careworn, deadbeat, exhausted, jaded, spent, to feel used up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gli ammortamenti-o consumo di capitali fissi-rappresentano la perdita di valore subita dai beni di investimento nel corso del periodo in esame,per effetto del normale logorio fisico e dell'obsolescenza prevedibile,nonché per il verificarsi di eventi acci (as a result of normal wear and tear and foreseeable obsolescence, consumption of fixed capital represents the amount of fixed capital used up, during the period under consideration, including a provision for losses of fixed capital goods as a result of accidental damage which can be insured against). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 尽きる (to be consumed, to be exhausted, to be run out, to be used up, to come to an end). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つきる (to be consumed, to be exhausted, to be run out, to be used up, to come to an end). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edusay upay esgotado (broken-down, dead-beat, exhausted, out, out-of-print, played-out, sold out, whacked). (various references) окончательный (definitive, final, last, peremptory, ultimate, unappealable), измученный (all in, chivied, exhausted, forworn, harried, racked with, strung, whacked). (various references) istrošen (time worn). (various references) el consumo de capital fijo representa la depreciación experimentada en el periodo considerado por el capital fijo como consecuencia de una utilización normal y la obsolescencia previsible, incluyendo una provisión para pérdidas de bienes de capital fi (as a result of normal wear and tear and foreseeable obsolescence, consumption of fixed capital represents the amount of fixed capital used up, during the period under consideration, including a provision for losses of fixed capital goods as a result of accidental damage which can be insured against). (various references) yorgun (all in, all out, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, wan, washed out, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), tükenmiş (at an end, distressed, drained, drawn, exhausted, extinct, finished, played out, run down, stale), harcanmış (dissipated, spent), bitmiş (all over, all up, at an end, exhausted, finished, out, over, run down, spent), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked). (various references) яolgalmak (be finished). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de limoV eniscusen epi thV ghV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Interim fames omnem terram vehementer premebat |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The meene tyme hungur al the loond greetly bare doun; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the derth waxed sore in the lande. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the famine was sore in the land. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang gutom midaku sa yuta. |
| Chinese | 那 地 的 饑 ' " 大 。 |
| Croatian | Strašna glad pritisla zemlju. |
| Danish | og da de havde fortæret det Korn, de havde hentet i Ægypten, sagde deres Fader til dem: "Køb os igen lidt Føde!" |
| Dutch | De honger nu werd zwaar in dat land; |
| Finnish | Mutta nälänhätä oli maassa kova. |
| French | La famine s`appesantissait sur le pays. |
| German | Die Teuerung aber drückte das Land. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Grangou t'ap bat pi rèd nan peyi Kanaran an. |
| Hungarian | Az éhség pedig elhatalmazott vala az országon. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kelaparan di Kanaan makin hebat, dan setelah keluarga Yakub menghabiskan semua gandum yang dibawa dari Mesir, berkatalah Yakub kepada anak-anaknya, "Pergilah lagi ke sana dan belilah gandum untuk kita." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka bala kelaparan makinlah lebih besar dalam negeri itu. |
| Italian | La carestia continuava a gravare sul paese. |
| Maori | ¶ A, he tino nui te matekai o te whenua. |
| Norwegian | Og da de hadde brukt op det korn de hadde hentet fra Egypten, sa deres far til dem: Dra atter avsted og kjøp oss litt korn! |
| Portuguese | Ora, a fome era gravíssima na terra. |
| Rumanian | Foametea bkntuia greu kn yarq. |
| Russian | зПМП" ХУЙМЙМУС ОБ ЪЕНМЕ. |
| Spanish | El hambre era grande en la tierra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-p-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: dupes, pseud, spued. | |
-2 letters: dues, dupe, dups, peds, puds, sped, spud, spue, sued, supe, used. | |
-3 letters: due, dup, eds, ped, pes, pud, pus, sue, sup, ups, use. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, es, pe, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-p-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: pursued, usurped. | |
+2 letters: pustuled, uproused, uprushed, upsurged. | |
+3 letters: outpushed, pendulous, pendulums, repursued, sulphured, superfund, superstud. | |
+4 letters: drupaceous, euphausiid, mudpuppies, pediculous, plunderous, pustulated, quadrupeds, quadruples, sculptured, stupendous, superfluid, superfunds, superstuds, suppurated, turpitudes, undisputed, unpunished. | |
+5 letters: euphausiids, outproduces, quadruplets, quadrupoles, sulphurised, superabound, superdeluxe, superfluids, superinduce, supersedure, undersupply, unpersuaded, unpressured, unpublished, unsupported, unsurpassed, unsurprised, unsuspected. | |
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