Use Up

Definition: Use Up

Use Up

Verb

1. Use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week".

2. As of time or space: "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Use Up

Use

Use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.

Crosswords: Use Up

Use up the Irish. (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

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

Books

• The Language We Use Up Here and Other Stories (reference)

• 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Electrical equipment tends to also use up more energy when operating under conditions of high humidity and heat. This is where installing a demonstration unit can be of great benefit as problems can quickly be identified and resolved. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

The U.S. Embassy and other U.S. institutions could use up to $3.4 million annually. (references)

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)

Trade

China

For certain items, including 26 categories of agricultural and petroleum products, licenses are granted for six months with multiple use up to 12 times. (references)

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

Expression using "use up": To use up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

verorber (consume, eat, eat up). (various references)

Albanian

konsumoj (burn, consume, wear, wear off), harxhoj (consume, dissipate, eat, expend, expense, finish, fritter, invest, melt, outlay, scatter, skittle away, spend, squander, trifle away), dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изразходвам (disburse, drain, eat up, exhaust, expend, spend, spin out), изчерпвам (deplete, exhaust, impoverish, play out, wear), довършвам (burn away, complete, end, finish). (various references)

Catalan

acabar (accomodate, end, finish, terminate). (various references)

Chinese 

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

Czech

utratit (destroy, expend, go through, outlay, spend), vypit, vyèerpat (deplete, do up, drain, enervate, exhaust, fatigue, suck up, tire out, wear, work out), spotřebovat (burn, burn up, consume, exhaust, expend, use), sníst (eat up, finish). (various references)

Danish

opbruge. (various references)

Dutch

volvissen, verteren (consume, digest, pay out, spend), verslijten (wear off, wear out), verslýten (abrade, wear away, wear off, wear out), verorberen (consume, eat up), verbruiken (consume), slopen (break down, consume, demolish, pull down, take down), slijten (wear off, wear out), slýten (abrade, wear away, wear off, wear out), opteren, opmaken (edit, finish, waste), opgebruiken (wear out), consumeren (consume), afdragen (convey, hand, hand over, pass, wear out). (various references)

Esperanto

konsumi (consume), foruzi, forkonsumi, eluzi (wear out). (various references)

Finnish

kuluttaa (consume, expend, pass, spend, use, wear). (various references)

French

consumer, consommer (use), épuiser. (various references)

Frisian

ferbrûke, ôfsjouwe (wear out). (various references)

German

verbrauchen (burn, burn up, consume, consuming, dissipate, eat up, exhaust, expend, spend, to consume, to dissipate, use, wear down, wear out). (various references)

Greek 

καταναλώνω (consume). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכלות (be finished, die out, end, perish, run out). (various references)

Hungarian

felhasznál (apply, expend, resort, to apply, to consume, to employ, to expend, to use, to use up, to utilize, trade in, use, utilise, utilize), elhasznál (deplete, expend, outwear, to drain, to use, to use up, to wear out, wear away). (various references)

Italian

esaurire (consume, deplete, dry, exhaust, get exhausted, overcrop, run out, sell out, spend, to consume). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

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

Japanese Katakana 

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

Pig Latin

eusay upay

Portuguese

esgotar (consume, deplete, do in, dry, empty, exhaust, expend, fatigue, fork, impoverish, outwear, overdrive, overstrain, pump up, rack, run out of, sap, spend, tire, wear out, weary, work out), consumir (absorb, consume, devour, eat up, expend, gnaw, pass, run out of, spend, swallow, torment, waste, wear). (various references)

Romanian

folosi la maximum, epuiza (consume, crock, deplete, distress, drain, drive, emaciate, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, prostrate, spend, waste). (various references)

Russian 

использовать (apply with, employ, gain advantage, make use of, turn to account 1, used of, uses, utilize), исписать (cover with writing), израсходовать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rashodovati (shelve), potrošiti (consume, deplete, expend, run out), istrošiti (wear off). (various references)

Spanish

consumir (consume, dig into, drain, eat, expend, get through, live off, live on, shrivel, waste, wear away), acabar (accomodate, accomplish, break off, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, play out, round off, terminate, throw over, top off, wash out, waste, wind up, work out), usar (consume, consummate, draw on, draw upon, employ, expend, explode, go through, make use of, to use, turn to account, use, utilize, wear, wear out). (various references)

Swedish

förbruka (consume, exhaust, expend, spend). (various references)

Turkish

tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, swallow up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), harcamak (consume, dally away, employ, exert, expend, lay out, put forth, put out, spend, spin out, swallow up, waste), bitirmek (break up, bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, conclude, consume, deplete, drink, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, graduate, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, wind up, work off, wrap it up). (various references)

Turkmen 

harajat etmek (expend, spend). (various references)

Ukrainian

виснажувати (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, waste), витрачати (consume, disburse, dispend, expend, hand out, spend, throw away, use, ware, waste). (various references)

consumam, consumant, consumantur, consumas, consumat, consumatur, consume, consumendus, consumens, consumentur, consumere, consumerem, consumerentur, consumeretur, consumeris, consumet, consumetur, consumi, consumit, consumitur, consumo, consumpserat, consumpseris, consumpserunt, consumpsi, consumpsimus, consumpsit, consumpta, consumptae, consumptaque, consumptas, consumpti, consumptis, consumptisque, consumptum, consumptura, consumptus, consumptusque, conteram, conteramus, conterantur, conteras, conterat, conteratis, conteratur, contere, conterebam, conterendam, conterendos, conterendum, conterens, conterent, conterentur, conterere, contererentur, contereret, contereris, conteres, conteret, conteretur, conteris, conteritis, conteritur, conterunt, contrita, contritae, contritaeque, contriti, contritis, contrito, contritos, contritum, contritus, contriverim, contriverit, contrivero, contriverunt, contrivi, contrivisset, contrivisti, contrivit, devora, devorabis, devorabit, devorabitque, devorabitur, devorabunt, devorabuntur, devorandum, devorans, devorant, devorante, devorantem, devorantes, devorantis, devorare, devorarunt, devorassem, devorat, devorata, devorati, devoratis, devorator, devoratrix, devoratum, devoratus, devoraverit, devoraverunt, devoraveruntque, devoravi, devoravimus, devoravit, devoret, devoretur, effuderim, effuderint, effuderis, effuderit, effuderitis, effudero, effuderunt, effudi, effudisti, effudit, effundam, effundant, effundas, effundatis, effundatur, effunde, effundebantque, effundebatur, effundendum, effundens, effundensque, effundent, effundentem, effundentes, effundentium, effunderem, effunderent, effundes, effundet, effundetur, effundi, effundit, effundite, effunditur, effundo, effusa, effusi, effuso, effusorum, effusum, effusus, supereffundentia. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: spue, supe.

-2 letters: pes, pus, sue, sup, ups, use.

-3 letters: es, pe, up, us.

+1 letter: pursue.

+2 letters: cupules, euripus, lupuses, pluteus, pulques, pursued, pursuer, pursues, pustule, seppuku, tuneups, uprouse, upsurge, usurped, usurper.

+3 letters: cupreous, cutpurse, euphuism, euphuist, guipures, opuscule, plumules, prunuses, purlieus, purpures, pursuers, pustuled, pustules, repursue, rumpuses, ruptures, seppukus, speculum, upcurves, uproused, uprouses, uprushed, uprushes, upsurged, upsurges, usurpers.

+4 letters: cutpurses, euphuisms, euphuists, europiums, impetuous, opuscules, outpushed, outpushes, pendulous, pendulums, penurious, pumiceous, punctures, pursuance, repursued, repursues, sculpture, sepulture, speculums, sulphured, superclub, supercute, superfund, superglue, superstud, suppurate, surpluses, uncouples, unpuckers, unpuzzles, uppercuts.